Ancient humans came together 35,000 years ago in the deepest, darkest part of a cave in what is now western Galilee, Israel, to hold ritualistic gatherings. This appears to be the earliest known ...

Cave art researchers have a tantalizing new theory to explain prehistoric paintings: that the images came to life in the flickering flames of candlelight as an early form of cinema. “The ...

Manot Cave was discovered in 2008, a chance find as workers built condominiums near the Israel-Lebanon border. In 2015, the first major finding emerged: a cranium in the cave that researchers ...

The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter (6,781 square foot) rock shelter located in the province of Neuquen, some 1,100 ...

In photos taken in the first cave, a shallow cavity near a quarry, blurry figures can be seen dotting the rock walls. Measuring about 4 inches in size, the figures are believed to depict humans ...

A chance encounter has led to the discovery of a small sandstone cave in the middle of the Sinai in Egypt. The cave is colorfully decorated with paintings of people and donkeys, some of which date ...

Archaeology & History Researchers Flying Drones Have Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings in the Mountains of Spain It's one of the first instances of drones being used to find cave paintings.

On Tuesday, Picture Cave – as it’s commonly known – sold at auction for $2.2 million. And for the Osage Nation, whose ancestors created much of the artwork in the cave, the sale came as a ...

The Lascaux paintings, however, are a mere 17,000 years old. The oldest known examples of figurative art, or imagery that shows more than just abstractions, occur in Southeast Asia.