France’s Font-de-Gaume cave is brimming with prehistoric artwork depicting bison, horses, reindeer, mammoths and other creatures. Now, for the first time, scientists have determined when some of these ...

A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

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 ...

A new study confirms that ancient cave paintings in France’s Dordogne region were created nearly 16,000 years ago.

Some of mankind's earliest and most mysterious artistic achievements—including prehistoric cave paintings, canyon petroglyphs and megalithic structures such as Stonehenge—may have been inspired by the ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism. Human remains found deep in a Polish ...