and of course the National Geographic tour guide and a Spanish expert on cave paintings. As with any group of 20-plus strangers, it can be hard to break the ice. Over the course of the trip ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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 ...

Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring ...

The cave paintings include stencilled impressions ... Prof Pike said of the Spanish finds: "Some of these things are placed in the very darkest bits of caves, where you couldn't do it by accident.

The site in the Cueva de Ardales, located in a mountain range in the Spanish province ... at a separate cave in Gibraltar provided compelling evidence for Neanderthal art. The geometric pattern ...

Created using red pigment, the Spanish cave paintings included hand stencils and geometric shapes. 'Some previous claims for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour have dating uncertainties or lie within ...

Created using red pigment, the Spanish cave paintings included hand stencils and geometric shapes. 'Some previous claims for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour have dating uncertainties or lie within ...

A British girl, Ashleigh, talks to her Spanish friends via a tablet. They are in an art studio, where Javier and Cristina are getting ready to paint Sara. They show their paint palettes full of ...

The evening dinner will be in a traditional Spanish cider house ... El Castillo contains one of the oldest known cave paintings, dated as more than 40,000 years old. Located in Puente Viesgo ...

On a Spanish island, a human-made bridge submerged underwater was discovered inside a cave during a scuba expedition in 2000. A new study has found that the limestone bridge is much older than ...