The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

Researchers named the latest ancient shark discovery Macadens olsoni, as a tribute to both the Mammoth Cave and Rickard Olson ...

The engravings analyzed for this latest paper were discovered in a cave called La Roche-Cotard on the banks of the river Loire in France, first discovered in 1912 after the entrance was exposed ...

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 ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant ...

Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain ...

Archaeologist Dean Snow's research suggests that the first artists may have been women, challenging traditional beliefs. Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art ...

Humans Cave paintings of mutilated hands could be a Stone Age sign language Palaeolithic hand stencils with missing fingers could indicate ritual mutilation or frostbite – but new research ...

The paintings in the rocky mountain caves and overhangs in the Sierra de San Francisco mountain range in Baja California were originally estimated to be about 500 to 1,500 years old.

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought ...

“Secondly, the discovery of new cave paintings in this type of cave indicates that prehistoric man developed sophisticated means of climbing, perhaps by means of ropes or wooden scaffolding ...

The cave art has been radiocarbon dated back to between 27,000 BP (before present, or before 1950 to be exact) to 19,000 BP, at which point the sea level was much lower.