Not everyone appreciates a good, old art masterpiece. Some might even go as far as calling it boring. It could be because they struggle to interpret the message behind the painting, or maybe they miss ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

On the recording they made for their 1956 debut LP Tragic Songs of Life (later a country hit), Ira and Charlie Louvin ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Elizabeth Shaw was born in 2058 to British parents, but spent much of her life in South Africa, where her parents were missionaries. After losing her father to Ebola, she travelled extensively. She ...

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

Discover New Mexico towns locals say tourists flock to every year, from historic Santa Fe to scenic Ruidoso and beyond.

The earliest uncontroversial evidence of horse remains on the Indian Subcontinent dates to the early Swat culture (around ...

Harry flicks several switches as we rise across Australia’s far-reaching Kimberley region. At roughly 422,000 sq km, it is ...

Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the ...