This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts naked, horrified monks running away from bands of vicious, animal-headed ...