This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave painting. The discovery fills a crucial gap in tracing the path of our species' ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing might ...

After confirmation of the site’s historical importance, it was was opened to the public - but later closed due to the effect of heavy footfall.

Celebrate the year of the Horse with the Top 10 Horse Paintings that highlight their significance in art and culture.

Thousands of rare calcite concretions — or eccentrics — emerge in all directions to form an underground constellation. Their gravity-defying shapes, delicate textures and sparkling purity are ...

More than 3,000 artworks from national museums were stowed in chateaus in the Lot—about 350 miles south of Paris ...

For many thousands of years, people returned again and again to this remote desert outcrop, leaving their marks across its stone walls. It’s unclear why this site became so prolifically adorned in ...

By Robert Hill Artist Nick Cave is presenting his new body of artwork titled "Mammoth" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition opened Feb. 13 ...

Beneath rolling hills and quiet forests in Kentucky lies a hidden world so vast that scientists are still discovering new life inside it. Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known ...

The slightly decomposed-looking sculptures appear as part of Cave’s new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

What if the oldest human artwork were nothing more than the shadow of a hand pressed against rock? In a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, researchers have identified a stenciled hand ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago ...