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 ...

Spanish Cave Reveals Ancient Sanctuary With Inscriptions in the Ceiling, Represented Persistence of Cults A team of ...

Spain. A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. This image relates to a ...

A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

Maria was a young girl who lived in Altamira, Spain. She belonged to a ... very long time…paintings on the ceiling of the cave that dated from pre-history. 3. The video Play the video.

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the ...

According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Victoria Oberreiter ...

Archaeologists uncover Roman inscriptions and a coin in Spain’s Cova de les Dones, indicating ritual significance.

Photo from A. Ruiz-Redondo, V. Barciela and X. Martorell Deep inside a partially flooded cave of eastern Spain, scientists studied the walls by flashlight. Some markings and a coin jammed between rock ...