and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history. Located inside the limestone cave of Leang ...

That likely makes it the oldest-known example of figurative art anywhere in the world—the world’s very first picture. It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings of animals and humans. It is believed that cave artists used paints made from nature such as rocks ...

In the Tassili highlands, lie found rock paintings which scientists have since confirmed as the oldest examples of Saharan pictographic art. Over 15,000 paintings, drawings and engravings have so far ...