A red, crosshatched design adorning a rock from a South African cave may take the prize as the oldest known drawing. Ancient humans sketched the line pattern around 73,000 years ago by running a chunk ...

In an extremely important archaeological discovery, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers proof that native Californians consumed hallucinogens while making ...

A deeper understanding of nature, how it works, and our relationship to the natural world can be gained by seeing “Paint Rock: Drawing from Nature,” an exhibit at JSU’s Department of Art & Design in ...

Researchers at the National Gallery of London have used cutting-edge techniques to reveal a hidden drawing beneath Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks. It shows that the great artist and his ...

Around 73,000 years ago, in a cave now known as Blombos, someone took a pointed lump of iron-rich rock—ochre—and dragged its tip across another rock, leaving behind a pattern of red, crosshatched ...

Catalogue of the Collection of Original Drawings belonging to M. Alexandre Vattemare, now exhibiting by the Artists' Fund Society, at their Hall, Chestnut above Tenth Street. Admission 25 ...