When people picture the ancient world, they often imagine ruins behind museum glass. But many of the world’s oldest cities are still alive, loud, and surprisingly ordinary. Streets mapped out ...

The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art, believed to be the oldest rock paintings ever discovered, dates back more ...

Indonesia’s vast archipelago is covered with the fingerprints of human history: ancient cave paintings. But on an island just off Sulawesi, archaeologists have now identified the world’s oldest known ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE FAINT image of a hand stencil, a negative outline of a human hand created by placing a hand against a rock wall surface and ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, ...

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 ...

A newly dated cave painting in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest artwork, and it could rewrite the story of early human imagination. “It’s more than just a stencil of a hand. They are retouching it.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists' previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more. An ...

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The Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in the east of Oregon may be the oldest discovered human settlement in Norrth America, but could it be predated by the Gault Site in Texas, or Meadowcroft Rockshelter in ...