A handprint dating back at least 67,800 years is over a thousand years older than hand stencils in Spain that are attributed ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, make, and value. At the Final Palaeolithic site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim in ...

The mansion's foundations and floors are likely well-preserved, according to geophysical surveys. The discovery provides new ...

Hercules was the Roman version of the Greek hero Herakles (or Heracles), who was said to be the son of the god Zeus (Jupiter to the Romans) and the mortal Alcmene. He was legendary for his incredible ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists ...

There, a team of archaeologists has discovered human-made rock art older than any other reliably dated example, with a ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest known rock art, in a cave off the island of Sulawesi, ...

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

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

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