The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

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Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art. Scientists have identified ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Iran's top judge hinted at fast trials and executions for those who were detained in nationwide protests against the country's ...