Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

Whether Neanderthals thought symbolically and had an artistic sensibility has been a question that has vexed experts in human evolution. But evidence is mounting that our Stone Age cousins were our ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig ...

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Archaeologists have found new cave paintings in Central Europe that suggest photography may be many thousands of years older than previously realised. It is well known that the whole concept of the ...

Cave paintings in Indonesia turned out to be 4,000 years older than thought, making them the world’s oldest known representational artworks. Archaeologists used new techniques to date the images in ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig ...