For readers in Spain and parts of Latin America, Monday's Google Doodle celebrates the discovery of 36,000-year-old art in the Altamira Caves of northern Spain. The cave and its secrets had been ...

Cave paintings are so in right now! From Werner Herzog's documentary to the recent discovery of new cave paintings in Spain, primitive art is totally in fashion. These newly uncovered 25,000 year-old ...

“Look, Daddy – oxen,” 9-year-old Maria cried out, pointing to the roof of the cave. Her father, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, looked up. It was 1879 and he was making his second visit to the Cave of ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

a policy article published in the journal Science in October 2011, Spanish scientists argued against the reopening of Altamira Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave contains multicolored cave ...

SANTILLANA DEL MAR, SPAIN—According to an El País report, three previously unrecorded hand stencils have been found on the walls of northern Spain’s Altamira Cave by researchers from the Museum of ...

On the north coast of Spain you can see some of the world’s oldest art, explore a stunning medieval village, then watch surfers ride Atlantic swells ...

To a remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...