Despite the humble subject matter, the painting is extraordinary because it's at least 40,000 years old. That makes it thousands of years older than the oldest such paintings in Europe.

The cave painting which was found on ... writing in Nature, said paintings of human and animal figures ‘have a deeper origin in the ... Over 50,000-year-old cave painting is oldest story ...

New research published today in Nature describes the discovery of an approximately 43,900-year-old cave painting found at the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.. The lead ...

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Paintings done after volcanic eruptions, for example, have much redder skies. 'Nature Speaks' “Nature speaks to the hearts and souls of the artists,” wrote the researchers.