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 ...

Cave art researchers have a tantalizing new theory to explain prehistoric paintings: that the images came to life in the flickering flames of candlelight as an early form of cinema. “The flickering ...

(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.

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Officials at Dunbar Cave State Park reported that the oldest cave art in the U.S. was “completely submerged,” which “has never happened before.” Boardwalks throughout the ...

Massive Native American cave art images, which have remained unseen for over 1,000 years in an Alabama cave, were recently unveiled by a team of researchers. The findings, detailed in a study ...

There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Researchers recently dated charcoal drawings in Borneo’s Gua Sireh Cave to around the 18th century CE, giving a colonial context to the artwork. Gua Sireh is in Malaysian Borneo. The cave’s limestone ...

One image in the cave is more than 10 feet long. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Alabama have discovered the ...