Because the paintings are often found deep inside caves in spots difficult to get to, it's likely that they were rarely visited and therefore of special importance. One hypothesis is that the art ...

There are 40 charcoal drawings inside Dunbar Cave, about 200 yards from the entrance. Their meanings remain a mystery as the Mississippian culture dates back about 1,000 to 500 years ago.

Previously, rock art found in European sites were considered to be the world’s oldest narrative artworks. BBC Indonesia was given rare access to film inside the cave. Produced by: Muhammad Irham ...

Elsewhere, at France’s Rouffignac Cave, evidence points to a child under the age of five drawing at least one line on a panel depicting a saiga antelope. Archaeologists found footprints of ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...