The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.

Art, one of the most creative, beautiful, and unique forms of expression, has been around for centuries. From the early cave ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia - a wild pig - believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago. Painted using dark red ochre pigment, the life-sized ...

The Sulawesi drawings could also be the oldest animal drawing ever found. Last year, a cave painting in Borneo - thought to be the oldest of an animal - was found to be at least 40,000 years old.

A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. This image relates to a paper that ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

This idea of energy expressed through simple forms harkens back to the Lascaux cave paintings. Burtner continues to return to the early roots of art in a way that suggests he is trying to return to a ...

San rock paintings in South Africa likely depict extinct dicynodonts, showcasing early local engagement in paleontology ...

The 10-day guided trip centered around paleolithic art and cave paintings. We would be exploring caves that the earliest forms of humans used as their canvases 20,000 to 40,000 years ago.