Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

IN 1879, an 8-year-old girl made a discovery that would rock our understanding of human history. On the walls of Altamira cave in northern Spain, she spotted stunning drawings of bison, painted in ...

An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

Chicago families can now experience prehistoric cave paintings without having to go underground. Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at the Field Museum this week, ...

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

In 1940 in Dordogne, France, four boys stumbled upon a long forgotten cave, a jewel of prehistoric art and a major archeological revelation. The cave was named Lascaux. Now a World Heritage site, ...

In 2017, archaeologist Adam Brumm received an exciting WhatsApp message: His colleagues in Sulawesi, Indonesia, had discovered a cave painting depicting three jumping pigs, along with other drawings, ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...