Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use of them as spaces to create art, inter the dead and butcher animals for food and clothing. In this countdown ...

A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This ...

Writing in the journal Antiquity, Professor Jan Simek of the University of Tennessee and colleagues have published images of giant glyphs carved into the mud surface of the low ceiling of a cave ...

Shadow puppetry, one of the oldest forms of storytelling and entertainment, comes to life in the limestone caves of Southeast ...

Mining activities in the Borbón and Pomier sections of Hato Damas, San Cristóbal, are endangering 1,700 rock art samples in ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the cave lions are. And the woolly rhinos, mammoths, and bison, a menagerie of ancient creatures ...

Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age rock art. | Credit: Pictures from History via Getty Images Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use ...