For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

Two hundred years ago, an earthquake revealed the entrance to a large cave system in southern Spain; sealed within the dark chambers were artworks made tens of thousands of years ago by early modern ...

Bats roosting in caves produce ample guano, which may explain why prehistoric marks left by humans cannot be found in some places where they are expected. By Michael Price Hunting scenes, geometric ...

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ancient European cave paintings recently attributed to Neandertals have ignited an ongoing controversy over the actual age of those designs and, as a result, who made them. An international group of ...

Thanks to a high concentration of limestone beneath the ground, Indiana has caves galore. This is especially true in southern-central Indiana, where there are many clusters of tourist caves ripe for ...

Mammoth Cave National Park has set a new record. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's longest known cave system just set a ...