What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. “It’s one of the rare sites where we can ...

DALLAS — The Nasher Sculpture Center here is devoted to the art of the modern era, and its elegant pavilion and garden, designed by Renzo Piano, have recently welcomed exhibitions by living masters ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

In the 1930s, a group of adventurers stumbled upon the caves of Gilf Kebir in Egypt. What they found inside sparked a scientific sensation. In the Stone Age, giant beasts (that some believe are ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...

Archaeologists working for the Bavarian State Office for Historical Preservation came upon the primitive engravings in a cave near the southern city of Bamberg after decades searching, a spokeswoman ...