The book also includes facsimiles of 19 Buddhist paintings from the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves, that are housed overseas. Fan Jinshi, honorary director of the Dunhuang Academy ...

A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This discovery challenges the belief that the origins of art lie in the West ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

The researchers used a new scientific approach to determine the minimum age of the newly disclosed painting inside the Leang Karampuang cave in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi province ...