(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

Part of the earliest known pictorial scene in prehistoric art, discovered in a cave in Indonesia. SciNews / YouTube Cave artwork discovered in a cave system in Sulawesi, an island in central Indonesia ...

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 ...

Archaeologists say the shapes of finger marks suggest that children as young as 2 years old made drawings on the walls of a Paleolithic cave dwelling, with an occasional boost from the grown-ups. The ...

Archaeologists exploring caves in Indonesia have discovered a wall painting that could be the oldest figurative painting ever found. It depicts ... a cow. Despite the humble subject matter, the ...

Researchers have discovered that ancient cave paintings in Europe depict star constellations and were used to keep track of astronomical events. Archaeologists believe the artwork shows that humans ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 ...