Cave art researchers have a tantalizing new theory to explain prehistoric paintings: that the images came to life in the flickering flames of candlelight as an early form of cinema. “The flickering ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

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About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as the climate shifted. By Becky Ferreira In the stark inland desert of ...

Few things are as humbling as witnessing the accomplishments of ancient peoples. Whether it's the Pyramids of Giza or their less-crowded, even older cousin, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, Cambodia's ...

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia – an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave ...

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Prehistoric paintings found deep inside a perilously inaccessible cave in the French Pyrenees reveal how ancient hunter-gatherers risked their necks to conduct ritual activities in the bowels of the ...

A team of researchers from the University of Seville has managed to capture a three-dimensional image of La Pileta Cave (Benaoján, Malaga), a National Monument since 1924 and a European reference in ...

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago, followers of ...