The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art ...

Northwest of Del Rio, where the Pecos River meets the Rio Grande, there are dozens of caves and rock shelters decorated with ...

On January 26, 1788, the British flag was raised at Sydney Cove, marking the start of a permanent European settlement in ...

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 ...

Sydney’s march will go ahead with reduced anti-protest restrictions, and rallies are planned in every other capital city ...

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 ...

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

A drawing of a claw-like hand on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art in the world. The ...

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