Archaeologists have just uncovered the world's oldest artwork in Indonesia.Researchers have found that handprints stencilled on limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Muna could be up to ...

Archaeologists work at the Lingjiatan relics site in Hanshan County, Ma'anshan, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 13, 2026. The Lingjiatan relics site in east China's Anhui is a Neolithic settlement ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered proof of ancient fermented beverages in western China — revealing how people brewed ...

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

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

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

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

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 Australia.