Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

Stencilled hands with claws recently discovered in Indonesia predate the previously oldest-known rock art by over 1,000 years ...

The San hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa are among the most prolific rock artists on the planet, having produced huge ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

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 ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...