Cave lions, larger than today's African lions, once dominated Ice Age Europe's mammoth steppes. These formidable predators, ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. The cave paintings of the Stone Age are not only among the ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Officials at Dunbar Cave State Park reported that the oldest cave art in the U.S. was “completely ...

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 ...

Moldy cave art prompts debate about access. The Lascaux cave drawings in France have survived for 17,000 years but are now endangered by encroaching black mold spots, ... is the real cave.

The public is barred from the cave paintings in Lascaux in order to preserve them. ... "That's why this replica is almost more real than the real cave," says Chadelle.

Feeling what those Ice Age men (and maybe women), our close relatives, felt is the haunting fun of a trip to the prehistoric cave areas of Cantabrian Spain, where Hornos de la Pena is among 18 art ...

Tour a Submerged Cave Packed With Paleolithic Art—Without Ever Venturing Underwater As sea levels rise, an immersive new exhibition in Marseille lets visitors explore an inaccessible cavern’s ...

When you think of cave paintings, you probably think of something like the painting above. It’s a depiction of a bison from the cave of Altamira in Spain, painted during the paleolithic period ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave art was at least 45,500 years old. It is also thought to be the oldest surviving image of an animal.

Inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have found one of the oldest known artistic depictions of a real-world object or organism. It’s a painting of a warty pig, an ...