An amateur archaeologist cracked a 20,000-year-old code hidden in Europe’s Ice Age cave paintings. The dots and lines beside animals like bison and reindeer form a lunar calendar tracking mating and ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region ...

The engravings are traced to show 19 life-sized camels and 3 equids. Naturalistic animals belonging to the middle phase are ...

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Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain, ...

Cave paintings are often called the first art ever made. But can we really call these early cave people artists?

Discover India's oldest cave art at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh. Dating back to the Mesolithic Period ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

A team of cave explorers discovered a prehistoric mural depicting animals and stars in northeastern Spain. Photo from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution A rare and ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...