The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, ...

Whether you’re a fine art appreciator, holiday gift shopper, amateur artist or simply art-curious, the 29th annual Hidden in ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

An amateur archaeologist cracked a 20,000-year-old code hidden in Europe’s Ice Age cave paintings. The dots and lines beside animals like bison and reindeer form a lunar calendar tracking mating and ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...

It’s a huge step forward in understanding the region’s vast history. Archaeologists have unearthed what are believed to be the first-ever cave paintings found in Ecuador, per El Mercurio. The ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

The artist who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama’s official White House portrait has pulled her latest show from a D.C. Museum this week after the space’s owners wanted to alter one of her ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Niede Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient ...

A recent discovery has turned into a potential goldmine for Robert Curtis, a 33-year-old man from the UK. According to Curtis, his grandfather, who was a senior civil servant, had a great appreciation ...

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 ...