Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, deer, and ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Long before the Sumerians pressed reeds into clay, humans may have already taken their first steps toward writing. Forty thousand years ago, in the depths of Ice Age caves, people began leaving behind ...

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The earliest traces of symbolic material culture of the human race date back more than 500,000 years and are not limited to carved tools, but also to ornaments, body paintings or even non-figurative ...

A host of abstract images was also found.“Many images could not be deciphered as they have faded with time. The artists could have used hematite stone powder to draw the red paintings and calcium ...