Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The drawing, which takes the ...

Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Craig Foster The crisscrossed pattern, drawn on stone 73,000 years ago, wasn't used as shorthand for #artlovers, but the hashtag-like design ...

Who made the first drawings? Prehistoric close prehistoricA period of time before history was written. cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings of ...

ARTWORK from 18,000 years ago is captivating the French public imagination as never before. The prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings near Montignac were discovered in September 1940 by an inquisitive ...

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 ...

(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.

Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, slightly ...