Prehistoric Pigments Found in Portugal Suggest Rock Engravings May Once Have Been Painted
The horses and wild cattle engraved on the rocks of Portugal’s Côa Valley have survived for thousands of years as outlines carved into stone. But…
Paleolithic art
18,000-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Figurines Reveal a Hidden Secret of Ice Age Art
For decades, archaeologists have uncovered the enigmatic details of small, intricate female figurines found at Mizyn, an ancient campsite in northern Ukraine. But one mystery…
Ice Age Artists Turned the Natural Patterns of Mammoth Tusks into Art 18,000 Years Ago
Around 18,000 years ago, artists living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small human figures from mammoth ivory. A new study suggests that the…
12,000-Year-Old Rock Engravings Discovered Beneath Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam Reveal One of the Oldest Hunting Scenes in the Euphrates Basin
Underwater Paleolithic panel shows humans and animals carved into an 8-meter rock surface Beneath the deep waters of Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam, archaeologists have rediscovered a…