At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient ...

Archaeological records confirm that the "Prince" was buried with a headdress or cap made of hundreds of small pierced shells ...

Just a four-hour drive from Melbourne, the Byaduk Caves are a mind-blowing underground network stretching for around 24,000 metres ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave painting. The discovery fills a crucial gap in tracing the path of our species' ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...

A largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be home to the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

A prehistoric Italian teenager may have died after a violent bear attack, according to new research examining remains found ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

A team of paleontologists has uncovered a vast and previously unknown ecosystem deep inside a cave in New Zealand, revealing ...