Caving is statistically one of the safest adventure sports — until something goes wrong. When disaster strikes underground, it does so in ways that are uniquely cruel. In tight passages, a single ...

In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a cave full of paintings that were well studied over the years, a faint hand ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia. The ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the ...

Maxime Aubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google Arts & Culture and The National Geographic Society. Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adhi ...

Archaeologists have found that handprints stencilled on limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Muna could be up to 67,800 years old, making them the oldest known paintings in the world. The ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, ...

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The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia. Shinatria Adhityatama examines cave art in one of the caves of ...

In The Descent, an outdoor adventure goes terribly wrong for six friends who enter caves looking for fun but find murderous creatures within the depths. Jen Karner has spent the last 10 years covering ...