Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

Celeste Paxton, a graduate student pursuing her M.A. art history, has been researching cave paintings at Chaturbhujnath Nala in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh. Paxton, who is studying South Asian ...

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave ...

An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to shed new light on the realism of horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings. Plans to reopen Spain's Altamira caves are stirring ...

Horses, Cave paintings of Paleolithic. UNESCO World Heritage. Zestoa. Cestona. Gipuzkoa. Guipuzcoa. Basque Country. Spain. During the upper Paleolithic between 35,000 and 12,000 years ago, modern ...

A Cova Done chamber with markings on the walls (© A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela, and X. Martorell; photo courtesy A. Ruiz-Redondo) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund ...

Using an unconventional, centuries-old method, researchers have identified hidden animal figures on the walls of a cave in Spain. The technique, called stereoscopic photography, dates back to the ...