Dating back more than 12,000 years, this extraordinary example of rock art features a scene involving birds and humans—a rarity for the Paleolithic Period on several accounts. The intriguing artifact ...

A 12,000-year-old piece of limestone found in Spain includes something extremely rare: depictions of both human and bird figures. Only a handful of examples of Paleolithic European scenes depicting ...

Wanshouyan, or "the rock of longevity", has lived up to its name over the ages. And it today provides insights into the lives of early humans in coastal China. Discoveries of tools and animal bones in ...