When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

Researchers were stunned when they discovered what appeared to be the outline of a hand while carrying out excavations. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, ...

There, a team of archaeologists has discovered human-made rock art older than any other reliably dated example, with a ...

The film's exquisite soundtrack for the film starring Joel Edgerton made the shortlist for an Academy Awards nomination.

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

In the absence of any documentation on prehistory, speleological explorations are the only way to reconstruct the history of ancient times. Tools, bones, everyday objects, carvings, sculptures and ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated. “Ground,” a permanent installation by ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

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