The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off Sulawesi, Indonesia ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s satellite islands called Muna. The team found a fragmentary hand stencil on ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the world's oldest artwork in Indonesia.Researchers have found that handprints stencilled on limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Muna could be up to ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula between ...