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1 Dead, 2 Missing After Ice Cave Collapses In Iceland
One person has died and two others were still missing a day after an ice cave collapsed in southeast Iceland while a tour group was visiting the area, police said Monday.
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Researchers Discover 24,000-Year-Old Palaeolithic Cave Art In Spain
The archaeologists found the artwork in a 1,600-foot-deep cave known as "Cova Dones".
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These Prehistoric Spain Cave Paintings Show Neanderthals Were...
Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for creating art, one of the authors of a new scientific report said on Sunday.
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World-Famous Ajanta Cave Paintings Are Being Preserved Using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now come to the aid of digitally preserving the world-famous 2nd Century BC Ajanta cave paintings
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Cave Paintings From 40,000 Years Ago Are World's Earliest Figurative Art
A painting of an animal in an Indonesian cave dates from at least 40,000 years ago, making it the world's oldest piece of figurative art, new research has shown.
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Gravity-Defying Sculptures Are The Result Of A Quirky Stone Stacking Contest
The European Stone Stacking Championships had sculpture artists gather in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the weighty title of champion stone stacker, in a quirky competition launched last year. Competitors must create the most complex and gravity-defying artistic sculptures from rocks and pebbles gathered on Dunbar's Eye Cave Beach.
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World's Oldest Cave Art Crafted By Neanderthals, Not Humans: Study
The world's oldest known cave paintings were created by Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, showing that our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes as previously believed, a study has found.
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Asian Cave Paintings Challenge Europe as Cradle of Art
The silhouette of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia is 40,000 years old, showing that Europe was not the birthplace of art as long believed, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Nasty, Brutish and Artsy? Neanderthal Hashtag Engraving Found
Belying their reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans, Neanderthals created cave art, an activity regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind, scientists reported on Monday in a paper describing the first discovery of artwork by this extinct species.
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1 Dead, 2 Missing After Ice Cave Collapses In Iceland
One person has died and two others were still missing a day after an ice cave collapsed in southeast Iceland while a tour group was visiting the area, police said Monday.
-
Researchers Discover 24,000-Year-Old Palaeolithic Cave Art In Spain
The archaeologists found the artwork in a 1,600-foot-deep cave known as "Cova Dones".
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These Prehistoric Spain Cave Paintings Show Neanderthals Were...
Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for creating art, one of the authors of a new scientific report said on Sunday.
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World-Famous Ajanta Cave Paintings Are Being Preserved Using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now come to the aid of digitally preserving the world-famous 2nd Century BC Ajanta cave paintings
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Cave Paintings From 40,000 Years Ago Are World's Earliest Figurative Art
A painting of an animal in an Indonesian cave dates from at least 40,000 years ago, making it the world's oldest piece of figurative art, new research has shown.
-
Gravity-Defying Sculptures Are The Result Of A Quirky Stone Stacking Contest
The European Stone Stacking Championships had sculpture artists gather in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the weighty title of champion stone stacker, in a quirky competition launched last year. Competitors must create the most complex and gravity-defying artistic sculptures from rocks and pebbles gathered on Dunbar's Eye Cave Beach.
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World's Oldest Cave Art Crafted By Neanderthals, Not Humans: Study
The world's oldest known cave paintings were created by Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, showing that our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes as previously believed, a study has found.
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Asian Cave Paintings Challenge Europe as Cradle of Art
The silhouette of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia is 40,000 years old, showing that Europe was not the birthplace of art as long believed, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Nasty, Brutish and Artsy? Neanderthal Hashtag Engraving Found
Belying their reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans, Neanderthals created cave art, an activity regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind, scientists reported on Monday in a paper describing the first discovery of artwork by this extinct species.
