A partly faded clay painting of a horse’s head. A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium ...

Sulawesi’s rock art was first discovered in the 1950s ... For ice age European cave painters, horses, rhinos, mammoths and lions were less important as dinner than as inspiration.

A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Image caption, This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National Park. Located at an altitude of 2,350 meters in the Mantiqueira Mountains on the border of Rio de Janeiro and ...

Curious, he approached it—and upon entering the cave, he found the paintings. “The first reaction was concern. I had never seen a cave painting before, so I didn’t know what it was.