An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

More than 400 footprints across a diverse range of species have been identified in incredible detail for the first time, with researchers enlisting a trio of expert indigenous trackers to help solve ...

Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

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Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...

In the 1930s, a group of adventurers stumbled upon the caves of Gilf Kebir in Egypt. What they found inside sparked a scientific sensation. In the Stone Age, giant beasts (that some believe are ...

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern ...

IF YOU have ever marvelled at the accomplishment of Stone Age cave artists, you are in good company. In 1940, on visiting Lascaux cave in southern France, Pablo Picasso supposedly said: “Since Lascaux ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned for ...