A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss beside the much more interesting animal figures and hand stencils made by Stone ...

Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

The cave, which sold for $2.2 million in St. Louis on Tuesday, is considered a sacred site by members of the Osage Nation. A tribal leader called the sale “heartbreaking.” By Isabella Grullón Paz A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author examining pictographs in 60th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee. Alan Cressler On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of ...

Deep inside limestone caves in southwestern Ireland, researchers say they have found traces of people who reached the island while the last Ice Age still gripped northwestern Europe. The island was ...

New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a border wall along the Rio Grande. But recently, a portion near Big Bend was put on hold. However, in Val Verde County, residents have received ...