A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old human relatives.

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...

Cave paintings in Chauvet Cave in France, dated to around 30,000 years ago, show these lions with distinctive features that differ from modern African lions. The artwork reveals that, contrary to ...

Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

In Morocco’s Grotte des Pigeons cave, researchers found 15,000-year-old bird bones, revealing ancient rituals using great bustards in funeral ceremonies.

The most ancient paintings, found in Indonesia, have been reliably dated to approximately 65,000 years ago – a full 20,000 years earlier than the oldest previously confirmed cave art. This timeline ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

Cave paintings, particularly those found in France and Spain, date back between 40,000 and 12,000 years and continue to mystify archaeologists. While previous studies have focused on the adult ...

Other color pros concur. “The use of red has been around for thousands of years. This primal hue was first used by ancient civilizations in cave paintings and burial ceremonies, and was later a ...