The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes applied to ...

Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock in Blombos Cave, South Africa. More famous are the figurative paintings in ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico ... More than 150 figures in total are painted on the walls, in red, yellow, white, black and orange colors. “Many of the figures are superimposed ...