Many millennia ago, in what is now the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, humans ground up some pigment and daubed pigs and people on the walls of a cave. Using cutting edge techniques, scientists have ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also makes it the ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

The eye-popping portraits of Kehinde Wiley, Marcel Duchamp’s medium-defying sculpture, the heady drip paintings of Jackson Pollock — these are all defining pieces of modern art, masterpieces of our ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought. The ...

(Reuters) - On the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered artwork depicting three human-like figures interacting with a wild pig in what they have ...

Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app. In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

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