Students passing through the Union Underground on Nov. 6 were met with an unexpected splash of color: paintbrushes, ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

These tiny hands (see highlighted circles) are not human, but actually match those of the desert monitor lizard. The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" painted on a rock wall in the Sahara Desert aren't ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

Kasaragod: Researchers have discovered prehistoric rock art at Erikulam in Kasaragod. The finding was made during a team of ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...

Warangal: Members of the Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam (KTCB), A. Karunakar and Md. Naseeruddin, discovered a new prehistoric rock art site in Yadgarpally village of Keesara mandal, ...

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The rock art around Babine Lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia positively pops with a startling red hue. It’s hard to believe that the more than 150 rock paintings have remained so ...

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New digital scans reveal the highest-elevation prehistoric rock paintings ever discovered, in living color. The scans were made in the Abri Faravel, a small rock overhang in the southern French Alps.

New research is shaking up our image of art-making in Paleolithic times, arguing that children or even toddlers may have been behind some of world’s earliest known art. The findings suggest that ...