The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

Archaeologists in Australia believe they have identified a previously undocumented beeswax stenciling technique used by ancient artists to create cave paintings. Most rock art stencils are large in ...

The next time you’re feeling creative, why not pick up a rock and transform it into something beautiful and inspirational? While rock painting technically dates back to prehistoric times, it's gained ...

Incredibly rare pieces of tiny Neolithic rock art found in a shallow Australian cave were made by creating tiny stencils out of beeswax, researchers have concluded. Located in the Yilbilinji ...

Inside a large cave in northwestern Australia’s remote Kimberley region, someone painted an elongated, yamlike shape on a ceiling at least 16,000 years ago, new research suggests. That long-ago ...

An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human. Tiny hands — originally assumed to be those of very young children or infants — ...

Cave paintings in remote mountains in Borneo have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago – much earlier than first thought – according to a study published on November 7 in Nature. These artworks ...