By Tim Appenzeller In a damp Spanish cave, Alistair Pike applies a small grinder to the world's oldest known paintings. Every few minutes, the dent...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ag...

Unglazed clay objects from ancient times that are intact are incredibly rare, but archaeologists Peter Breunig and Nicole Rupp of the Goethe-Universit...

LOS ANGELES -- Cave painters during the Ice Age were more like da Vinci than Dali, sketching realistic depictions of horses they saw rather than dream...

Werner Herzog's new film, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," examines some of the first traces of human culture. In the documentary, the prolific German dire...

How and why did ancient humans take that first step toward capturing three-dimensional reality in a two-dimensional space? The epic five-part BBC series How Art Made the World sets out to answer this question.

The J. Paul Getty Museum's iconic statue of Aphrodite was quietly escorted back to Sicily by Italian police last week, ending a decades-long dispute o...