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

In the late 1970s, a mysterious object dating back to the Early Stone Age was unearthed in Germany. Initially thought to be an oil lamp, the item was later studied in detail by researchers from Aarhus ...

In the Algerian desert, dazzling alfresco galleries provide an eloquent record of ancient civilizations. Here’s how you can visit. Sandstone rock formations and dunes fill Tassili n’Ajjer National ...

The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, ...

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel Harrison picked up the hand-sized flintstone which tour guide Martin Simpson ...

Scientists have just unearthed theworld’s oldest known cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At 51,200 years old, ...

Catalog of an exhibition at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Oct. 12-Nov. 13, 1983, and other museums on a tour organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling ...