Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century A.D., acquired a head by the great baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fusion of old ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

Robin Reames is a professor of rhetoric who teaches in the English department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Below, Robin shares five key insights from her new book, The Ancient Art of ...