DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss ...

Archaeologists exploring Turkey's Tohma Canyon region recently discovered a cave filled with more than 100 prehistoric ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

A new analysis detected hidden charcoal in black cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume, allowing scientists to accurately date the ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...

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A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

Two new painting shows at Galleri Urbane span millennia in their points of reference, from Paleolithic cave art to digital selfies. Hung in well-lit rooms so closely adjacent that a viewer can stand ...

French caves will let visitors experience magic of the ‘prehistoric Sistine chapel’ for first time in decades ...