The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago.

The world’s oldest rock art, found in an Indonesian cave, offers new insight into the arrival of the first humans in ancient ...

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