40,000-year-old cave art may be world's oldest animal drawing. The Southeast Asian island of Borneo joins a growing number of sites boasting early cave art innovation.

The world’s earliest-known cave painting of an animal has been discovered on Borneo in Indonesia. It dates back to at least 40,000 years ago, a new study says.. The drawing is even older than ...

Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

Using a simplistic 3-D viewing technique, archaeologists discovered three new cave drawings that they believe were originally intended to appear 3-D.

Certain animals were missing from the drawings, including big cats and fish. Cats like jaguars and pumas exist in the Colombian Amazon, yet ancient humans likely didn’t get close enough to ...

Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France. Dated to: 30,000 to 28,000 B.C. | Once thought to house the oldest representational art, the more than 1,000 paintings of predators like lions and mammoths are ...

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years.They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict.They also appear to have been an ...

Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing. Roughly 200-year-old African rock art predates the scientific description of dicynodonts.

This Gua Sireh Cave art was drawn with charcoal on limestone save walls and is dated between 1670 to 1830 CE. ... “We had clues about their age based on subjects such as introduced animals, ...

The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave walls in Israel, new research from Tel Aviv University published on Monday has suggested ...

The First Carbon-Based Cave Drawings Found in France Prompt a Reevaluation of Paleolithic Art Researchers say the artworks could be up to 19,000 years old. Employee in the Lascaux Cave Replica (2022).