For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe. Then, slowly but surely, ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...

The painting was found inside the Liang Metanduno limestone cave in Indonesia Cover Images via AP Images Researchers have discovered an outline of a hand inside a cave in Indonesia, which could be the ...

International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, making it the oldest known cave artwork ever discovered, per a study published Wednesday ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia. The ...