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.

Exactly how old remains uncertain because establishing the age of prehistoric cave art is notoriously challenging. It had long been assumed that the Gargas stencils were made in the Gravettian ...

Roughly 900 stencil paintings of arms, feet, discs, sticks and tiny and large hands cover the rock walls inside the cave. Honoré was stunned the first time she walked into Wadi Sūra II in 2006.

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40,000-year-old cave paintings include 'oldest hand stencil known to science' Drawings in a cave in Borneo have been found to be 30,000 years older than previously thought ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered prehistoric paintings in hard-to-reach caves in the east of the country using drone technology. CNN values your feedback 1.

The oldest painting — a hand stencil — was discovered on a 13-foot-high (4 meters) ceiling in a cave known as Leang Timpuseng in Sulawesi's southwestern peninsula.

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.