A newly discovered series of cave drawings is changing the way scientists think about Neanderthals, and could help to change some long-held beliefs about how one long-dead branch of our own family ...

(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.

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — The angel at the trailhead is a sobering sight. The unusual marker sits at the trail that leads to Hosak’s Cave at Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County in east-central Ohio. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This composite image from the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the world's oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of ...

A red, crosshatched design adorning a rock from a South African cave may take the prize as the oldest known drawing. Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Cave Creek artist Dick Mueller will unveil what he believes to be the world’s largest colored pencil drawing – 4 feet by 8 feet – June 13 at Nickel Creek Gallery in Cave Creek. Mueller has applied to ...

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