The San hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa are among the most prolific rock artists on the planet, having produced huge ...

A drawing of a claw-like hand on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art in the world. The ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Though the term “strike” was coined in 1768, the history of work stoppages is much older and artists have been involved from the start. The “Turin Strike Papyrus” (1187–1157 BCE), cyperus fiber, ink, ...

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Apollo Art Auctions presents an outstanding assemblage of over 500 lots of ancient art and antiquities, featuring one of the ...

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