The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

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

On an idyllic tropical island, archaeologists have found a cave wall that's been carefully adorned with pigment in an oddly ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

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

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...

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

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station, Australia (photo by Graeme Churchard/Wikimedia) Australia’s Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...