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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

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 ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery that points to an advanced artistic ...

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

Community members were invited to create artworks on 4-by-4-inch canvases, and the impressive results are on view at the Four ...

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 ...