The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

The diversity of Upper Palaeolithic imagery is staggering. The period and its efflorescence of art lasted from about 35,000 to 10,000 years ago. Today we are still able to appreciate these ancient ...

He’s convinced the artifacts from these caves—regardless of whether they are art or talismans—mark a milestone in human development, an intense flowering of creativity that began in the ...

Police arrested two groups accused of bulldozing a trail, building a house and damaging a heritage site in Peru, cultural officials said. Photo from Peru’s Ministry of Culture Police in northern ...

Among the artwork is a long-bodied animal with tusks, unlike any known modern species or cave painting previously discovered. The tusked animal in the artwork stands out because it doesn’t match any ...

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Perched high above the ocean on South Africa’s southern coast, a cave carved into a cliff has revealed thousands ... The study is published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. Like what you ...