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

Explore stunning prehistoric caves in southern France, where cave tours with ancient artwork are a must-see experience for ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

For years, it was believed that figurative painting began with the Cave of Lascaux in France, dating back about 17,000 years ago. But this new finding suggests that the earliest storytelling ...

Art is also an incredibly effective tool for learning — something well known to our ancient ancestors, who used cave art to educate people over posterity. When you look at art, the concepts or ...

These paintings are often made with raw materials like charcoal which could have formed much earlier than the drawings themselves. It is partly why figurative artworks in Europe, like the ones in the ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...

Archaeologists have found dozens of handprints, tracings in soft clay, and footprints made by children between ages 2 and 12 across famous cave sites throughout France and Spain ... parts of the ...

14,000-year-old footprints of at least two children, together with an adolescent and two adults, were identified some 400 meters deep in the Basura Cave in northern Italy. Elsewhere, at France’s ...

Rock art is one of the most fascinating legacies of prehistoric societies. In caves in France and Spain, paintings up to 40,000 years old have been discovered, many of them in hard-to-reach areas and ...