The Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, is famous for the 71 prehistoric hand paintings found on its walls. In 2018, researchers determined that the silhouettes were the first major evidence that ...

Ancient cave art in Mexico dating back between 5,000 and 500 years ago has been carved from the wall and damaged by looters.

The oldest are often constructed from hand stencils and simple geometric shapes. However, more recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in an Indonesian island, and dated to over 45,500 years, has ...

The first prehistoric cave excavation in Israel took place in 1925, but frustratingly, not a single cave painting has been found since,” Barkai said. Reconstruction of elephant hunting using spears.

Over a period of two years, 25 artists hand-painted 900 metres of faux cave, using the same pigments as those used by the prehistoric painters to recreate almost 2,000 artworks. Judges comments ...

Archaeologists in Mexico responded to a complaint and discovered looters had stolen a historic cave painting that’s at least ...

Looters stole a cave painting and damaged others with ... rock were found on the ground nearby. The stolen painting depicted a human hand, officials said. The spot where a painting was cut out ...