Many millennia ago, in what is now the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, humans ground up some pigment and daubed pigs and people on the walls of a cave. Using cutting edge techniques, scientists have ...

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Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history. Located ...

A realistic cave painting of a wild pig, including its warts, may be the oldest known art depicting the real world. The purple pig was found on the walls of the Leang Tedongnge cave on the Indonesian ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record. The painting was ...

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A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island, there is a cave decorated with what may be the oldest figurative art ever glimpsed by modern eyes. The vivid depiction of a wild pig, outlined and filled in ...

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia — an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave ...