In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

It’s a form of prehistoric art, alongside the vivid cave paintings in Lascaux, France, or Altamira, Spain, which famously capture the essence of ancient life through intricate depictions of ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

American artist Charles R. Knight produced some of the most iconic paintings of prehistoric life to date. Several major natural history museums in the US have featured Knight’s murals: detailed, ...

Our knowledge of how extinct species looked is changing all the time, as is the art that depicts them. Known as palaeoart, the artform is linked closely to the latest scientific research on dinosaurs, ...

The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients ...

The following dinosaur reconstructions were published in the 1960s in Museum guides. Fossil evidence and investigations from the past 50 years have revealed some scientific inaccuracies. Can you spot ...