In photos taken in the first cave, a shallow cavity near a quarry, blurry figures can be seen dotting the rock walls. Measuring about 4 inches in size, the figures are believed to depict humans ...

Archaeology & History Researchers Flying Drones Have Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings in the Mountains of Spain It's one of the first instances of drones being used to find cave paintings.

The significance of Indonesian cave art, first discovered in the 1950s, only become clear since 2014, when scientists used new dating techniques to determine that some of these paintings were just ...

Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring water on them in order to take better photos for social media.

New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been by modern man.

A cave in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, contains 895 painted designs (some shown). Researchers have dated three examples of this cave art to between around 8,200 and 5,100 years ago.

Based on the exploration of archaeological sites in Piaui — which uncovered 15,000-year-old human bones, cave paintings estimated to be around 35,000 years old and evidence of fires dating back ...

US News Moronic tourist under investigation after dumping water on ‘historically significant’ ancient cave paintings for social media By Natalie O'Neill Published Aug. 9, 2024, 6:13 p.m. ET ...

The Lascaux paintings, however, are a mere 17,000 years old. The oldest known examples of figurative art, or imagery that shows more than just abstractions, occur in Southeast Asia.

Finger paintings made by children in Rouffignac Cave, 14,000 to 20,000 years ago.

A chance encounter has led to the discovery of a small sandstone cave in the middle of the Sinai in Egypt. The cave is colorfully decorated with paintings of people and donkeys, some of which date ...

Based on the exploration of archaeological sites in Piaui — which uncovered 15,000-year-old human bones, cave paintings estimated to be around 35,000 years old and evidence of fires dating back ...