THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in ... its roots the entrance to a hitherto unknown cave. On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were ...

Spanish Rock Art Site Reveals Ancient Roman Sanctuary With Inscriptions and Ritualistic Offerings Hidden beneath the surface ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

—Paleolithic 'art sanctuary' in Spain contains more than 110 prehistoric cave paintings —Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ago ...

In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

Scientists have known about prehistoric cave paintings for hundreds of years. Some of the oldest ones date back to the Neanderthals over 60,000 years ago, writes History. They depict people ...

If you're a fan of board games that really dig into lost culture, or city builders that let you get the full experience of life in prehistoric ... wooly mammoths and cave paintings.