A new law empowering Turkey’s central government to seize historic properties from local authorities is raising fears that heritage sites are becoming the latest front in a wider campaign against ...

The faint outline of a hand in a cave in Indonesia’s Sulawesi has been recognised as the world’s oldest known rock art, shattering a long-held scientific theory that human artistic expression first ...

Scientists have identified what they believe to be the oldest known rock art in the world inside a cave in Indonesia. ADAM BRUMM: So this is a human hand mark created by blowing paint around a human ...

Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...

Archaeologists believe this faded hand stencil marking is the first cave art in the world created by humans. (all photos by Maxime Aubert, courtesy Griffith University) Scientists have identified what ...

New research suggests that Europe may not be where human symbolic culture first began. Scientists have discovered an ancient hand stencil in Indonesia that is nearly 68,000 years old. This finding ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago. The work was dated by a group of experts from Australia and Indonesia in a ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-coloured prints analysed by Indonesian ...

A faded outline of a human hand on a cave wall in Indonesia could now be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago. The handprint ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. This prehistoric art form suggests the ...

“It was hiding in plain sight all this time,” one researcher said. “It was hiding in plain sight all this time,” one researcher said. Adhi Agus Oktaviana, an Indonesian scientist, studying rock art on ...