The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

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It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

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An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

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An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago. The work was dated by a group of experts from Australia and Indonesia in a ...

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...