The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

The next time you’re feeling creative, why not pick up a rock and transform it into something beautiful and inspirational? While rock painting technically dates back to prehistoric times, it's gained ...

Incredibly rare pieces of tiny Neolithic rock art found in a shallow Australian cave were made by creating tiny stencils out of beeswax, researchers have concluded. Located in the Yilbilinji ...

The discovery of 40,000 year-old paintings depicting animals and the outline of hands on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island suggests Europe was not the birthplace of art as long believed, scientists tell DW.

An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human. Tiny hands — originally assumed to be those of very young children or infants — ...

Inside a large cave in northwestern Australia’s remote Kimberley region, someone painted an elongated, yamlike shape on a ceiling at least 16,000 years ago, new research suggests. That long-ago ...

We have no idea who painted a large red animal on the walls of a remote cave in Borneo at least 40,000 years ago, but their work is the oldest-known example of figurative rock art in the world, ...