When a cave has been sealed off from the surface world for roughly 57,000 years, anything inside it feels, by definition, non ...

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The stripes, spots, and parallel lines etched into the walls of a cave in Central France more than 57,000 years ago have been identified by researchers as the earliest record of Neanderthal art. Their ...

About the time Roman legions were sacking Carthage, a Stone Age artist painted the black outline of a turtle on the wall of a cave south of what would become Billings. Measuring nearly a foot across, ...

At this very moment, you're a participant in one of the things that makes us human: the telling and consumption of stories. It's impossible to say when our species began telling each other stories—or ...

Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet of the ...

In limestone caves hidden deep in the jungle of Borneo, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known figurative drawing created by a human artist, dating back at least 40,000 years. The ancient ...

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With over 4 miles and seven stories full of unique rock formations and water streams, this underground cavern is one of the largest cave systems in Missouri.

A pair of Mark Twain enthusiasts who have searched for more than two decades say they’ve found what appears to be Samuel Clemens’ signature from his youth scrawled on the wall of the Missouri cave he ...