WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

Red Bull Drawn in Indonesian Cave Dates to 40,000 Years Ago ... Now, with the Borneo cave art, the scientists can construct a rough timeline of how art developed in the area.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Prehistoric cave paintings so fragile they're sealed from human view are coming to the Field Museum of Natural History in replica next March. ... including a 17-foot-long bull, ...

Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave Many of the works, estimated to be at least 24,000 years old, employ a rare clay painting technique ...

Indeed a whole history of art could be written tracing a line of imaginative descent from the cave paintings of Lascaux, through statues of Minoan bull-leapers, through Rembrandt’s 1632 ...

Prehistoric humans correctly depicted the gait of four-legged animals, such as this bull in the famous cave paintings of Lascaux, France, more frequently than modern artists. Image via Horvath et ...

Annotated photo highlighting a sequence of four dots on an aurochs (wild cattle) bull that was painted on the wall of Lascaux Cave (Dordogne, France) around 21,500 years ago.

The more than 600 paintings and a thousand engravings in the actual cave were done 20,000 years ago. Using a laser light to point out details, archeologist Jean-Pierre Chadelle says these early ...

The discovery of what would soon become known as the world's premier example of prehistoric art occurred by accident. In 1940, four teenage friends were exploring the woods in southern France when ...

The position of the newfound painting, in a cave whose entrance some 23 feet above the ground is hard for modern visitors to access without a ladder or climbing equipment, is also intriguing.

Around 14,000 years ago, the cave-dwellers began to regularly sketch human figures doing things like dancing and hunting, often wearing large headdresses. A similar transition in rock art subjects ...