A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

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.

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

Detail of engravings on limestone block from Švédův stůl Cave PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague ...

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

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

On a humid island at the edge of Asia, a single human hand pressed against stone has reached across 67,800 years to meet our ...

On an idyllic tropical island, archaeologists have found a cave wall that's been carefully adorned with pigment in an oddly ...

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

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 work was dated by a group of experts from Australia and Indonesia in a ...