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June 1, 2022 A cave in southern Spain was used by ancient humans as a canvas for artwork and as a burial place for over 50,000 years, according to a new ...
Sep. 11, 2023 Archaeologists have discovered a major Palaeolithic cave art site, arguably the most important found on the Eastern Iberian Coast in ...
July 12, 2023 Portable chemical imaging technology can reveal hidden details in ancient Egyptian paintings, according to new ...
Aug. 2, 2021 The origin and date of appearance of prehistoric cave art are the subjects of ongoing debate. Spain's Cueva de Ardales is one point of discussion. There a flowstone formation is stained red in ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle color clues in the ...
Nov. 27, 2023 The national park of Koli in eastern Finland is home to a famous, 34-metre-long crevice cave known as Pirunkirkko, or Devil's Church in English. A new study investigates the acoustics of the ...
Sep. 14, 2021 Researchers have identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan ...
Oct. 11, 2023 Leonardo da Vinci is renowned to this day for innovations in fields across the arts and sciences. Now, new analyses show that his taste for experimentation extended even to the base layers underneath ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the ...
Nov. 13, 2023 A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South ...