This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

is the world's oldest known artwork and evidence of storytelling The painting, found in the Leang Karampuang cave on Sulawesi, depicts what appears to be three human-bird hybrids hunting a wild ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern ... the oldest examples of figurative art, and the tiny carved bird is the oldest depiction of a bird ...