Researchers named the latest ancient shark discovery Macadens olsoni, as a tribute to both the Mammoth Cave and Rickard Olson ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant ...

The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...

In 1977, officials closed the cave to visitors to protect the paintings from degradation. In 1982 the cave reopened, this time with a limited visitation schedule of 8,500 people per year.

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.

The paintings portray what appear to be female archers and deer and goats, some of which are wounded by arrows, according to 20 Minutos, a Spanish newspaper. The artwork is believed to be around ...

The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter (6,781 square foot) rock shelter located in the province of Neuquen, some 1,100 ...

The cave art in Jaén has been mistreated in recent history. In 2021, the historic Vacas del Retamoso paintings at the Despeñaperros Natural Park in Santa Elena were vandalized with spray paint.

Researchers have found more than 100 cave paintings dating back at least 24,000 years in the massive “Cova Dones” site in Spain.

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.

Archaeology & History Man Doused 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings in Water For a Better Facebook Post The man doused the paintings to make them clearer for photos he wanted to share on Facebook.

The paintings are located in the Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain in Spain’s Jaén Province. They’re some of the oldest in the world and the UN has recognized their location as a World Heritage ...