A possibly hypoxia-inspired bison painting in the Cave of Altamira, in Cantabria, Spain Universal Images Group via Getty. The models showed that these prehistoric Picassos mostly worked their ...

The world’s earliest-known cave painting of an animal has been discovered on Borneo in Indonesia. It dates back to at least 40,000 years ago, a new study says.. The drawing is even older than ...

Older cave art dating to around ... These artworks inspired the idea that ... Archaeologists in Indonesia have stumbled upon an extraordinarily old cave painting which appears to ...

The paintings, which were found along the coast of Spain, are believed to be around 7,000 years old, according to one outlet.

The eerie stencil paintings of human hands in Spanish caves might not be from humans at all. New dating methods of the paintings suggest some of the cave art could have been drawn by Neanderthals.

Scientists say they have found the oldest known figurative painting, in a cave in Indonesia. And the stunning scene of a hunting party, painted some 44,000 years ago, is helping to rewrite the ...

If you thought prehistoric cave art was just daubs of hunting scenes, you need to think again. The latest research suggests that some of the oldest cave paintings in the world were ancient ...

Cave art researchers have a tantalizing new theory to explain prehistoric paintings: that the images came to life in the flickering flames of candlelight as an early form of cinema. “The ...

A chance encounter has led to the discovery of a small sandstone cave in the middle of the Sinai in Egypt. The cave is colorfully decorated with paintings of people and donkeys, some of which date ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years.. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean ...