Whether it’s a video for the ’gram, or the bison scrawled onto the walls of the Lascaux caves, humans have always chronicled ...

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

Within a few thousand years, he says, this impulse spread to Stone Age France and Spain—where it turns up in paintings of bison, rhinos and lions on the walls of caves like Chauvet and Altamira.

"I remember as a kid, one time, I drew my family on the wall to mimic a cave painting, and I had to clean it up. It was really bad," Lau recalled. Lau is a senior in Hillcrest High School's IB Art ...

The ancient pot was discovered by members of the Urban Cenotes organization, which preserves caves around the Yucatán Peninsula. Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

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