Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

For climate scientists, these artworks from the Golden Age of Dutch Painting function as visual data sources of sustained ...

Whether they take the form of carved images, sculptured figurines, or elegant abstractions, artifacts produced in prehistoric times are rarely seen as artistic expressions in their own right. Rather, ...

Cool off this July with family-friendly Ice Age activities, from fossil exploration and story time to art-making and exploration of the museum’s new hands-on Discovery Center. Settle in for a story ...

(AP) The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has something special the oldest known figurative art ...

This isn’t art — it’s evidence. Giant sloths, Ice Age horses, bizarre extinct beasts… all drawn with chilling accuracy across 8 miles of Colombian cliffs. And it may be 12,600 years old.

The habitat and environment of the ice-age artist -- The art of the ice age / Johannes Mariger -- Discovery -- Sites -- Minor arts -- Mural paintings and engravings -- Reliefs and sculptures in the ...

Archeologists have identified the first Ice Age cave art ever discovered in England, a series of drawings dating back 12,000 years that are similar in style to the renowned cave drawings at Lascaux in ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolution ...