The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from ...

The art in the cave dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. Ancient Prehistoric Rock Painting Known as the White Lady of Brandberg Dating Back at Least 2000 Years and Located at the Foot of Brandberg ...

Africa. Primitive Prehistoric Neanderthal Wearing Animal Skin Draws Animals and Abstracts on the Walls at Night. Creating First Cave Art with Petroglyphs Rock Paintings Illuminated by Fire. Back View ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

“These groups are believed to be descendants of a shared common ancestry population that migrated from Africa (some even 50,000-70,000 years ago),” the researchers wrote. Also Read | The world’s ...

Historian, academic, and researcher Joern Stoevring has published an insightful book exploring the San cave paintings' traditions, particularly focusing on the relationship ... AllAfrica is a voice of ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta ...

In 1983, archaeologists excavated Kruger Cave in South Africa and found a 7,000-year-old femur bone that belonged to an antelope. Researchers then noted something unusual about the bone: three bone ...