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Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

A crop of an image of the Abri Favarel paintings with the colors enhanced with DStretch. (photo by Loic Damelet, CCJ-CNRS/all images courtesy University of York) Using car batteries as their only ...

Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, deer, and ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 ...

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as ...