Mammoth” is the museum’s largest ever single-artist commission and opens Friday less than a mile from the White House.

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back to at least 67,800 years ago. The stencilled outline, created when someone ...

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.

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe ...

The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly 68,000 years old.

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

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 stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...