The humble pig-and-humans painting is now officially the oldest known figurative cave art. Some older etchings on cave walls in southern Africa show mere geometric patterns, not figures.

Paintings of miniature buffalos, warty pigs and human hands covering the walls and ceilings of caves in Indonesia could be among the oldest examples of cave art in the world, a new study finds ...

The oldest agreed-upon site of human art lies in southern France—the Chauvet cave. But the artwork of Gabarnmung could vastly predate the French works.

INAH has confirmed the authenticity of 10,000-year-old cave paintings found near the municipality of Tehuacán, Puebla.

Scientists have identified the oldest figurative art in the world, and it can be found in a cave in the Borneo jungle.

Some of the world's earliest cave art, including the oldest-known hand stencil drawing, is degenerating at an "alarming rate" due to climate change, according to a new study.

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. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

THE OLDEST evidence of storytelling cave art has been discovered dating back more than 51,000 years. Experts were stunned to find the figurative cave painting on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi.

As cave art goes, it doesn’t look like much: a single red dot, hidden among a scatter of handprints and drawings of animals on the wall of El Castillo cave in northern Spain. But this red dot is ...