Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds. The ...

Using the 3D data gathered by the archaeological teams, the 23-million-euro ($24-million) replica is slightly smaller than the original cave but includes copies of all the paintings and 90 percent ...

A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium carbonate, a natural paint preservative.

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...

A park ranger in the Itatiaia national park in Rio de Janeiro has found 3,000-year-old cave paintings. An unexpected discovery that calls regional history into question.

From Alex Bowman, Glasgow, UK “Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture, brings to mind 16,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France.

“But storytelling of 51,200 years old is even more incredible.” Among the hundreds of caves on Sulawesi are some of the world’s oldest cave paintings.

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts.

Misconception: Stone Age food was unrecognizable. It turns out that prehistoric meals might not have been all that different from your last takeout order. In 1991, a 5300-year-old mummy was ...