That likely makes it the oldest-known example of figurative art anywhere in the world—the world’s very first picture. It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that ...

Using uranium-thorium dating, researchers measured the calcite crusts over the artworks, revealing that some are over 20,000 years older than the oldest previously confirmed cave paintings in Europe.

The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.

WHAT may be the West’s oldest painting of the Madonna has been rediscovered in Rome’s Church of Santa Francesca Romana. An expert restorer named Pico Cellini found the panel (right ...