From ancient olive groves in Bethlehem to a New Jersey mall, a Palestinian Christian family keeps a centuries-old faith and ...

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater. This beloved ...

Neanderthals—artists ahead of their time? Newly analyzed ochre crayons show that our prehistoric cousins were already using objects to communicate symbolically, long before Homo sapiens. With their ...

A stencilling technique for depositing arrays of nanoscale ferroelectric capacitors on a surface could be useful in data storage devices. Even in Palaeolithic times, people used stencils to help with ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and figures that appear to predate our own species. The latest discoveries ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory, a roughly three-hour drive southeast from the territory’s capital, Darwin, is one of the greatest rock-art landscapes in the world. Recent ...

Up until now, it has been believed that only Homo sapiens could have created Paleolithic cave art. Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest extinct kin, who died out 30,000 years ago, were thought to be ...