The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

A groundbreaking Australian play has come to New York for a few weeks. It’s called "The Visitors," and it tells an important ...

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

Credit: Ratno Sardi/Adhi Agus Oktaviana/Maxime Aubert/Cover Images A hand stencil found on the wall of a cave in Indonesia ...

At the end of the Birdsville Track, just above Maree in South Australia, Douglas dropped in to see a well-known local ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

A hand stencil found on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art in the ...

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

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

Indonesia and the surrounding region is known for some of the world’s most ancient archaeological finds. Archaeologists have ...

The 67,800-year-old reddish-colored stenciled image has become faded over time and is barely visible on a cave wall, but ...

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...