The scenes depicted are vivid—humans are shown sitting atop animals, dancing, sparring, and celebrating victories, offering a ...

Last year has yielded remarkable discoveries in human evolution, including fossils, genetic studies, footprints, and ...

Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

The Brazilian archaeologist who discovered hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil has died.

Since the 1950s, scholars have documented more than 240 cave art sites on Sulawesi, but for decades, these paintings were assumed to be no older than about 12,000 years.

The world’s oldest cave art has been uncovered in the Indonesian Islands of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists, showing an incredible 51,200-year-old painting of a wild pig and ...

A painting created at least 51,200 years ago in the limestone cave of Leang Karampuang in the Maros-Pangkep region of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi portrays three human-like figures ...

The oldest known example of figurative rock art has been identified in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Three human-like figures that appear to be interacting with a wild pig have been ...

Little is known about the people who created the Sulawesi cave paintings. Aubert said the paintings might turn out to be older than the minimum age determined by the new testing and possibly date to ...

The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.

Scientists have discovered a painting of three human figures surrounding a large pig in a cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Using a new technique where a laser nips off several tiny ...