The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.

Researchers also speculated a possible connection between cave art and human language development. “Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the ...

Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism ... same stock as those who created the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, France and elsewhere in ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

Situated in southwestern France, Lascaux Cave is world-famous for its stunning Paleolithic cave paintings. Unearthed in 1940, ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum in France ... where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig ...

But the researchers were unable to date the art due to a lack of organic matter. So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that ...