Ancient cave drawings reveal a window into the past, particularly how early humans lived. A 40,000-year-old 5-foot wide sketch of a bull-like beast was recently found on the wall of a cave in the ...

Around 14,000 years ago, the cave-dwellers began to regularly sketch human figures doing things like dancing and hunting, often wearing large headdresses. A similar transition in rock art subjects ...

And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing by humans. It's not the earliest deliberate design; some abstract engravings are far older.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least ...

12, 1940, the Lascaux cave paintings, estimated to be 17,000 years ... it is a popular tourist draw. Lascaux is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. One concern as Lascaux and other prehistoric ...

The sketch by early humans, unearthed at an archeological dig site in a South African cave, was drawn with a red ochre crayon—and it may be the earliest drawing ever discovered. Although the ...

The University of Victoria paleoanthropologist, who specializes in European cave art, has been awarded a National Geographic grant to test genetic material found in cave wall paint in Spain to ...

Devlin GandyThe cave art resembles an unfurling Datura wrightii, a flower that contains both scopolamine and atropine which are two very psychoactive compounds. A new study has found that ...

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least ...