A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

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

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

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

An ochre hand stencil found in the jungles of Indonesia is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers believe, a ...

This undated image provided by Maxime Aubert shows handprints with sharpened fingertips in the Maros region of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Archaeologists in Indonesia have identified rock art that dates to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest known cave art made by humans, and strengthening the case that the first humans to ...

Sulawesi made global headlines after researchers dated a cave painting of a wild pig to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the oldest known representational artwork. New findings now suggest humans ...

For the first time in decades, Jews set eyes on the 1,700-year-old Dura Europos synagogue paintings this week. After studying the world’s oldest synagogue paintings for nearly a decade, Jill Joshowitz ...

Outside, it was cold and dark. Inside, brightly colored forms seemed to swirl and spread. It was February, 2013, the evening of the opening of “Hilma af Klint—A Pioneer of Abstraction” at Moderna ...

Melbourne, Jan 22 (The Conversation) When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the ...