The painting of the hand is over 15,000 years older than another cave painting on Sulawesi that researchers found in 2024, ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are thought to be the oldest ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...