The paintings unearthed in the Leang Karampuang cave are at least 51,200 years old ... is now the earliest known surviving example of representational art, and visual storytelling, in the world ...

Languages: English, Spanish A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps ...

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 inside the limestone cave of Leang ...

That likely makes it the oldest-known example of figurative art anywhere in the world—the world’s very first picture. It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that ...

It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world. Figurative artwork refers to art that depicts animals, humans, or objects from real life; they are not abstract.

One particularly striking example is a 16th-century image that ... and suggests that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art ...

Now, scientists have discovered that these arresting patterns are the oldest known example of Neanderthal ... identifies Neanderthals as the cave art creators and adds to growing evidence that ...