The art, which includes drawings of bulls ... suggests that the phenomenon was understood long before the ancient Greeks. "Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists have calculated that ancient cave drawings in Indonesia are actually tens of thousands of years old. That tells us one huge thing about our past.

Curious to see petroglyphs and pictograms dating back hundreds, if not thousands, of years in the United States? Here are the ...

A ncient humans came together 35,000 years ago in the deepest, darkest part of a cave in what is now western Galilee, Israel, ...

There are over 700 paintings lining the rock walls of the Cave of La Pasiega in north ... scientists viewed them as two-dimensional drawings. But the ancient artists actually incorporated bumps ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

In Maltravieso Cave ... cave drawings in Spain that pre-date the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 20,000 years. They also appear to have used painted sea shells as jewellery. Art was ...

By analyzing the uranium-to-thorium ratio of calcium carbonate crusts that cover ancient cave art, researchers can accurately date the crust and, by default, provide a minimum age for the ...

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave ... with ancient imagery in Sulawesi alone - and new sites are being discovered annually. How does it compare to other prehistoric art?

and 3D modeling to capture everything from the tombs in the Valley of the Kings to ancient cave drawings in Brazil and works of art by 16th-century European masters. And it could change the way we ...