More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

Cave art from ancient Yelagiri hills, Tamil Nadu, dating back over 9,000 years, reveals energetic depictions of humans riding ...

The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.

A remarkable discovery in the Yelagiri hills of Tamil Nadu has thrilled archaeologists. Ancient cave paintings, believed to ...

Preserved in the clean, still atmosphere of a cave on the south-west peninsula of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the rock art has been dated as being at least 51,000 years old.

The entrance to Leang Karampuang cave, where some of the oldest cave art has been found. | Google Arts & Culture. One painting of a hunting scene, previously estimated to be at least 43,900 years ...

A painting created at least 51,200 years ago in the limestone cave of Leang Karampuang in the Maros-Pangkep region of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi portrays three human-like figures ...

The discovery of red pigment paintings daubed on the walls of a secluded Sulawesi cave about 51,000 years ago also provides the oldest evidence of our species, Homo sapiens, in the region ...

A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, ... “which they were probably hunting,” said Renaud Joannes-Boyau, ...

A cave in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, contains 895 painted designs (some shown). Researchers have dated three examples of this cave art to between around 8,200 and 5,100 years ago.

A 2018 study dates the oldest found cave art to 64,000 years ago, predating modern humans. Neanderthals painted it in a cave in what is now Spain. What may be the oldest surviving cave art by early ...