Ancient cave art in Mexico dating back between 5,000 and 500 years ago has been carved from the wall and damaged by looters.

The cave was discovered accidentally in 1742, and although there are no records about its origin or purpose, the most popular ...

Researchers say modern humans in the area did not see the ritualistic purpose of painting on cave walls, unlike their ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

They too carried hammers and a drill, and soon the two teams would begin banging on the cave walls and drilling into the rock, listening for each other, hoping noise would lead them to a ...

This bizarre Patagonian cave remains shrouded in mystery. Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer society that flourished in Argentine Patagonia around ...

For over a century, archaeologists have puzzled over the absence of cave art in the Levant in general and specifically in ...