Three authors have been awarded $10,000 prizes for blending scientific research with literary grace. The Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced on Wednesday the ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.