Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the region.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The San hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa are among the most prolific rock artists on the planet, having produced huge ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

The exhibit ‘Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art’ showcases rarely-seen works through Sept. 3. Moving an ancient stone artifact that towers over 10 feet tall and weighs about 9,000 pounds is no ...

The “Trees, Time and Technology” show opening next week at the di Rosa center weaves together history, feminism, Judaica and more.