These red lines look a bit like an ancient ... drawings in the world. This might remind you of your nursery school art but the difference is that these hand paintings in Argentina are on a cave ...

And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave ... used in the ancient world, said Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway. The drawing is basically ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives ... images drawn on a rock-shelter wall, dubbed the Horned Serpent ...

Seventy-three thousand years ago, an early human in what is now South Africa picked ... known drawing in history. But how solid is the find, and can it really be labeled as art?

Such outright penance right there on a museum wall ... Ancient Nubia was mired in what they judged to be the barbarism of Africa and beholden to Egypt for any and all of its worthwhile advances in ...

The most ancient painting is a smudged red disk on a cave wall ... that art was simply something that came along with whatever mental developments caused our ancestors to spread out from Africa ...

One giraffe stood out as the biggest; we measured it at 27ft from muzzle to rear hoof, the biggest single rock-art image ... slabs used by ancient cultures for divining purposes. Africa's oldest ...

For the most part, scientists viewed them as two-dimensional drawings. But the ancient artists actually incorporated bumps, dips, and crevices from the rocks into their art that can't be fully ...

This week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the beginning of a $70m project to reinvigorate its African, ancient American ... the installation of a glass wall to better illuminate the ...

Why did the ancient Egyptians do this? And is ancient Egypt the only culture to create art in this style? Drawing any object ... according to Baines. In wall art, royalty and tomb owners are ...