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 ...

The art of miniature painting in Africa is a centuries-old tradition, deeply ingrained in many cultures across the continent. These tiny masterpieces served as historical records, capturing important ...

Scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE that rock paintings from the 19th century in southern Africa depict an extinct ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored ... argue that its traces can be seen in African sites that date back to 100,000 years ...

Scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE that rock paintings from the 19th century in southern Africa have been discovered ...