A recent trip to Hot Springs, N.C., revealed a piece of history and perhaps a part of the family heritage of a Blount County woman. Jonnie Odom has been visiting Hot Springs for more than 25 years, ...
WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, ...
Scientists say they have found the oldest known figurative painting, in a cave in Indonesia. And the stunning scene of a hunting party, painted some 44,000 years ago, is helping to rewrite the history ...
Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...
Dr. Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at Leang Lompoa in Maros, Indonesia. Justin Mott I struggle to keep my footing on a narrow ridge of earth ...
The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. It was around this time that Corinthian vase painters began adorning their vessels with animal friezes ...
In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off Sulawesi, Indonesia ...
In Room 67 of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Francisco Goya’s Saturn enthralls viewers with a scene of abomination.The painting depicts the Greek myth of Cronus (Saturn in the Roman version), who ate his ...