In a flat, arid stretch of southern Australia, the Koonalda Cave is home to art that dates back 22,000 years – a sacred site for the indigenous Mirning People and a discovery that transformed ...

Australia’s cave art is among the oldest in the world, with some sites dating back more than 40,000 years. In Arnhem Land and the Kimberley, researchers found paintings that are thousands of years ...

In 13th- and 14th-century Europe, art was mostly connected to the church, and was made to help people feel closer to God.

Hand stencil in a cave in Indonesia, dated to at least 39,900 years old (photo by Kinza Riza, via Nature.com) New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and ...