Some 45,500 years ago, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient humans ventured into a cave and sketched out the rotund form of a native pig, complete with a bristly back and face warts.

Located in the Southern Ural Mountains of Bashkortostan, the Shulgan-Tash Cave contains extensive Late Palaeolithic rock art. Set within a karst massif near the Belaya and Shulgan Rivers, it features ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has found. Scientists investigating the Red Planet’s mind-boggling cave system ...

Prehistoric cave painting of two Sulawesi warty pigs, Leang Tedongnge Cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia. At least 45,000 years old, this is among the world’s oldest known cave art and illustrates the ...

The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, in a cave in southern France, is a nearly 25,000-yearold depiction of horses with spotted coats. While spots are seen in many modern horses, they were believed to be ...

Radiocarbon dates from Coliboaia Cave in Romania show that animal images drawn on the cave walls are among the oldest visual art in Europe and further confirm that early humans did indeed create art.

ZURICH, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career ‌on ​his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that ‌humanity owes much of its ...

Two of this year’s most-hyped films are from British film-makers: Christopher Nolan’s swords-and-sandals epic The Odyssey in ...

From desert dunes to ancient ruins, these top-rated New Mexico destinations stand out for scenery, history, and ...