To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, deer, and ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

The pictures appearing on these pages —published for the first time outside of France—are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less ...

A team of international scientists has uncovered ancient hand and foot prints that may upend our understanding of early cave art. The experts believe that the impressions identified near Quesang ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station, Australia (photo by Graeme Churchard/Wikimedia) Australia’s Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, ...

ANCHORAGE — R. Dale Guthrie sees Paleolithic art lifted from caves and makes a connection to 21st century walls -- the stalls of a junior high boys’ bathroom. Some social anthropologists and art ...

Dr. David Zhang, a scientist from Guangzhou University in China, examines the footprints and handprints on the travertine rock in Quesang, Tibet. These impressions are thought to be the world's oldest ...

Australia's Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, according to an expert quoted in the Guardian's recent investigation of the the threats facing the prehistoric art. Was the ...