NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,

Researchers in Australia think the painting - which has been discovered in South East Asia - could tell us more about how creative ancient humans were. The latest research is published in science journal,

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is located in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico.