Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

Dots, lines, and symbols found beside Ice Age cave paintings have puzzled archaeologists for decades. New research suggests ...

California is a great place for spelunking -- aka exploring caves. While you might think one cave is like another, each one ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

Public outrage over the Supreme Court's hill definition in the Aravalli range highlights its geological, cultural, and historical significance to India.

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

Cut from a sheer cliff face nearly a thousand years ago, India's Ajanta Caves are home to sacred Buddhist spaces adorned with vibrant works of ancient art. Carved in timeThe Buddhist cave temples near ...

To celebrate the nearing Year of the Fire Horse, we look at paintings, books and plays that show how the use of horses in art has evolved.

If you love local art or going to a festive holiday market or catching a show, this week's issue is worth checking out.

Some 12,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers populated the caves of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, surrounding the Rio Grande border between Mexico and West Texas. These people left arrowheads, earth ovens, ...

Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

But far beneath the chaos, an alternative awaits: caving. Caving, also known as spelunking, goes deeper than your average commercial cavern tour. “It’s climbing, crawling, scrambling, rappelling, and ...