Archaeologists have produced a vivid, high-tech scan of ancient art on a sandstone ceiling at a shelter in the French Alps, capturing prehistoric paintings at an altitude of about 7000 feet. The ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

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 ...

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In a remarkable discovery, archaeologists have found one of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art in the Amazonian rainforest. Tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans, ...

To prepare fossils, you have to have a sure hand. Between knives, fine dental tools and even engraving equipment, removing a fossil from the surrounding rock and hardened sediment is a delicate ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Prehistoric cave paintings so fragile they're sealed from human view are coming to the Field Museum of Natural History in replica next March. Yves Coppens, chairman of the Lascaux Cave ...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world’s oldest-known representational artwork: three wild pigs painted deep in a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least 45,500 ...

Martha Foley and Curt Stager talk about ochre. It’s more than just a color in the Crayola box. Nov 26, 2020 — Martha Foley and Curt Stager talk about ochre. It’s more than just a color in the Crayola ...

New archaeological research suggests that some Stone Age Europeans used vibrant blue pigments to decorate themselves or their possessions - and evidence from other sources raises the possibility that ...