To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they ...

Archaeologists have dated prehistoric hand stencils found in limestone caves on Indonesia’s Muna island to nearly 67,800 years ago, making them the world’s oldest known paintings.

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 ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Córdoba asserts that the Nerja Caves in Malaga, Spain, received more prehistoric visits than any other in Europe. Since being unwittingly ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age ...