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 ...

In a new study that was just published today, a team of international archaeologists have hailed the discovery in Blombos Cave in South Africa of a 73,000-year-old stone flake that was colored by ...

The abstract design, vaguely resembling a hashtag, was drawn by hunter-gatherers who periodically dwelled in Blombos Cave overlooking the Indian Ocean. A small stone flake marked with intersecting ...

PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray fall afternoon earlier this month, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that ...

Last weekend I decided to connect with the ancient myth that connects British culture with engineering by taking part in a bladeforging class in East London. Many readers may be surprised at that ...

EleksMaker has created a small CNC egg artwork drawing machine, aptly named the EleksEgg which is based on the Power Carver high speed engraving system. Watch the demonstration video below to learn ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's southern coast represents what ...