VITHAL C NADKARNI gets a chance to take a close look at Jhansi Ki Rani s yoga manuscript now locked in the vaults of a British library The armed guard even with his holstered gun and navyblue uniform ...

Without a second thought, he shimmied up the rock and tucked himself into the mouth of a small cave, where he clambered through the tunnel’s cool, musty air. He hit the back wall and saw a mural ...

Feral goats on Hook Island are putting Aboriginal cave paintings at risk. Rangers and traditional owners say fences and trapping has helped protect the artwork. Ngaro elder Peter Pryor has seen ...

Large animals on which humans depended for survival during that time were the primary subjects of cave art in Western Europe, where hundreds of cave paintings from 35,000 ... Alkow Department of ...

They postulate that the lack of oxygen deep underground induced visions, and that the paintings were intended not as art in the ... as a package: the cave as a context, the wall as a membrane ...

Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art ... Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform ... It is on a cave wall at a farm called La Belle France. The rock art depicts an animal that sports two tusks.

Some of the drawings have been dated to as early as 740BC Courtesy Reniel Rodríguez Ramos/University of Puerto Rico at Utuado A groundbreaking study of ancient cave paintings in Puerto Rico has ...

Near the southernmost tip of South America, people may have started cave painting nearly 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously suggested by ancient rock art in that area.

Related: Did art exist before early humans? New discoveries raise big questions. Throughout the entire cave site, archaeologists counted 895 unique paintings ... onto a cave wall in Indonesia.

Ancient humans ... the origins of cave art 2. The people who painted the Maros–Pangkep murals did so on a hardened outer crust that forms when water leaches through the cave wall, bringing ...