A rare discovery of 3,000-year-old cave paintings in a national park near Rio de Janeiro offers new insights into ancient ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

The researchers explain: “Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of children as young as two years old. So far, most hypotheses have focused on the educational ...

Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

Ancient cave paintings potentially dating back 2,000 to 3,000 years have been discovered in Brazil's Itatiaia National Park.

The move is in response to a 2022 incident when trespassers broke into and vandalised the Nullarbor cave, which contains well-preserved 20,000-year-old finger art. A management plan has also been ...

Why did a single flower magnetize me? What can a flower — or a painting of a flower — do when you are lost in a blizzard? I myself wasn’t sure. Initially, I thought it was just the simple ...

One of the most fascinating art movements of all time, one that is also referred to as rather weird and unconventional, is the Surrealist era, or the Surrealism movement. Breaking off from the ...

However, the more I learn about art, the more I realise Europeans owe so much, if not everything, to others. This couldn’t be more exemplified than in 2018 when the oldest (that we know of) cave ...

It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in ...