Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...

Penn’s Cave in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania offers exactly that otherworldly experience—America’s only all-water cavern that you ...

The extraordinary cave network of Ajanta in India houses a trove of masterpieces dating back thousands of years.

Imagine walking a snowy plain, mammoths looming nearby, and knowing enormous cats once prowled in their shadow. These ancient felines were more than fierce predators—they were masters of survival, ...

If you want your next holiday to feel like a walk through a living museum, start with the countries that boast the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

Koppal: Stone Age cave paintings and an inscription were found in Kattekallu hill near HG Ramulu Nagar on Koppal Road in Gangavathi taluk. These were .

Suspected 35,000-Year-Old Stone Age Ritual Site Found Deep Within Cave A cave in Galilee hints at prehistoric ritual gatherings in a cave that holds evidence of Neanderthal and human occupation.

The dedication to its sourcing shows the importance of this substance, which was key to giving cave paintings, body art, and personal ornaments a richness in color.

A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo. The Horned Serpent panel. A, general view of the Horned Serpent panel photographed in 2024 by the author.

Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

The cave painting in Indonesia is also the world’s oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, according to an international team of researchers who used a new dating technique.