Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...

A marble mine is built to extract stone, not uncover natural wonders - but that’s exactly what happened here. Deep inside the mine, workers stumbled onto a hidden crystal cave filled with formations ...

A man digging in his backyard for just three days ended up uncovering something unreal — a massive hidden cave system beneath ...

Archaeological records confirm that the "Prince" was buried with a headdress or cap made of hundreds of small pierced shells ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 10,000-15,000-year-old cave art site in Odisha's Sambalpur district, named Badbil Ushakuthi. The cave features an overwhelming 98% of vulva motifs, interpreted as ...

The painting predates 66,000-year-old rock art attributed to Neanderthals in Spain, which was previously believed to be the ...

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 ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...