Chauvet’s paintings, formerly known as the oldest cave art, are 37,000 years old. In 2012, El Castillo, Spain , took top prize for oldest cave art in the world, with one painting dated to 40,800 ...

T he Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, is famous for the 71 prehistoric hand paintings found on its walls. In 2018, researchers determined that the silhouettes were the first major evidence ...

B etween 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

Cosquer cave is a beautiful display of ancient cave art, remaining one of the only known caves to depict over 150 animals across its walls in ornate paintings and engravings.

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought.

7 pictures of our ancient ancestors’ stunning cave paintings. It's been 80 years since four teenagers discovered the Lascaux cave paintings in Montignac, France. by JoAnna Wendel.

A dim-witted tourist dumped water on ancient cave paintings to snap better photos for social media — and is now under investigation after posting the shots of the damaged historic art, according ...

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Chauvet Cave discovery in 1994 contains paintings dating back more than 30,000 years. ... they're beautiful and they really do look like what was trying to be represented.

Art, one of the most creative, beautiful, and unique forms of expression, has been around for centuries. From the early cave paintings of fire and fox, to the newer depictions of modern art on ...

The astonishing cave paintings of bison, deer, and extinct animals were discovered by accident in France in 1940. They offer a tantalizing glimpse into prehistory.