Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

The San hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa are among the most prolific rock artists on the planet, having produced huge ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

Researchers discovered 68,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia, the oldest-known evidence of Homo sapiens in the area. The ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...