NEW YORK (AP) — 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. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

The looters had plans to plunder an ancient cave workshop from the Second Temple Period on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.

“Mammoth,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is a self-portrait through sculpture, video, photography and more. And it lives up to its name.

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters ...

(Updated 10/10/23) My first experience sleeping in a cave hotel was many years ago in Santorini, in one of those typical whitewashed hotels dug into the volcanic rock and once used as inexpensive ...

Researchers say pollution could spread rapidly through caves linked to Europe’s largest underground thermal lake.