A group of young student archaeologists were excavating the Huerta de Otero site in Mérida, Spain when they made a stunning ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern ... renowned ...

Scientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal approximately ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered the world’s oldest known human fingerprint left by a Neanderthal over 43,000 years ago ...

The Nerja Cave, often described as the “natural cathedral of Prehistory,” welcomed a special guest this week: Nobel ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism ... Remains found in France and Spain also show signs of marrow extraction. The researchers say that ...

Other art in the cave shows people who appear to be ... for butchering animals have also been discovered. —Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island ...

how new technology is making these ancient cave paintings more accessible to the public, and what they can tell us about the human experience. You can check out Dr. Wisher’s VR replica of the El ...

A dim-witted tourist dumped water on ancient cave paintings to snap better photos ... The unidentified 39-year-old man from Los Villares, Spain, wanted “clearer” and brighter images of the ...