Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history ...

The earliest examples of figurative art that has survived through the ages are the Cave paintings, they have been a source of ongoing fascination for the clues that they might have left behind about ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

The La Roche-Cotard Cave, where the markings were found, was sealed between 51,000 and 60,000 years ago, according to samples the researchers collected and dated measuring ionized radiation levels ...

Photo by Luc-Henri Fage / AP WASHINGTON — Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave.

Previously, the oldest-known rock art depicting an animal, a Sulawesi warty pig found in another cave on the island, dated to at least 43,900 years ago, according to a 2019 study published in the ...

Many examples of cave art include drawings of animals and humans. It is believed that cave artists used paints made from nature such as rocks, mud and berries to make their drawings.

The partial animal from Lubang Jeriji Saleh cave was the oldest, but two hand stencils from the same cave dated to at least 37,200 years ago, and another was drawn somewhere between 23,600 and ...