The Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, is famous for the 71 prehistoric hand paintings found on its walls. In 2018, researchers determined that the silhouettes were the first major evidence that ...

Paintings of miniature buffalos, warty pigs and human hands covering the walls and ceilings of caves in Indonesia could be among the oldest examples of cave art in the world, a new study finds ...

So-called mutilated hands can be seen at many other prehistoric rock art sites, but Gargas cave is the most striking example of this phenomenon.

Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.

Ancient auditory illusions reflected in prehistoric art? Some of mankind's earliest and most mysterious artistic achievements—including prehistoric cave paintings, canyon petroglyphs and ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered prehistoric paintings in hard-to-reach caves in the east of the country using drone technology.

A groundbreaking discovery in Maltravieso Cave, located in Extremadura, Spain, is shaking up our understanding of the origins of art. These ancient hand stencils, dated to at least 66,710 years ago, ...

The paintings, which were found along the coast of Spain, are believed to be around 7,000 years old, according to one outlet.