This composite image from the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the world's oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of 40,000 years, in a limestone cave in the Indonesian part of the ...

A newly discovered series of cave drawings is changing the way scientists think about Neanderthals, and could help to change some long-held beliefs about how one long-dead branch of our own family ...

A red, crosshatched design adorning a rock from a South African cave may take the prize as the oldest known drawing. Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk ...

It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing. It’s not the earliest deliberate design; some ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The drawing, which takes the ...

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THE OLDEST drawing ever carved by humans has been discovered in a cave in Africa. Scientists say the mysterious artwork is at least 73,000 years old – and was created by modern man’s distant ancestors ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 40,000-year-old painting of a mysterious, wild cow-like beast discovered in a Borneo cave is ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Cave Creek artist Dick Mueller will unveil what he believes to be the world’s largest colored pencil drawing – 4 feet by 8 feet – June 13 at Nickel Creek Gallery in Cave Creek. Mueller has applied to ...