(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may be the oldest evidence of narrative art ever discovered, researchers say. The artwork, which depicts a human-like figure interacting with a ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back ...

Scientists have discovered what may be the world's oldest cave art. Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia are believed to date back to at least 67,800 years ago. The ...

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought. The ...

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 ...