Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo of a large cave wall with lion drawing and green damp moss color at the bottom. Bearded male researcher in a blue coat and ...

For nearly a century, skeptics dismissed a Paleolithic cave painting as merely rust-red iron oxides, the kind of natural staining one might see from mineral runoff on cave walls practically anywhere ...

(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

A hand stencil pressed onto a cave wall in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is now dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the ...

Over 57,000 years ago, a group of Paleolithic humans stood in a cave beneath the French countryside, pressing their fingers against the rock, dragging them against the soft, chalky rock of the cave, ...

Cave art on Mona Island (All images by and courtesy Jago Cooper and Alice Samson) In the subterranean network of caves on Mona Island, 41 miles west of Puerto Rico, archaeologists have discovered a ...

Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is ...

The islands of South-East Asia record a long and dynamic human history of technological innovation, migration and conflict. The region's rock art stretches back more than 45,000 years. It's a unique ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's southern coast represents what ...