The man cave aesthetic has undergone a radical transformation over the past decade. Where vintage bar signs and expensively framed Godfather posters once defined these sacred spaces, today's ...

Rock paintings made by the San people in the Drakensberg mountains. Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP Rock art is one of the most amazing and emotionally affecting creations of human beings. Last week I ...

In the painted cave of Pech Merle near Cahors in France, two horses seem to float on a stone panel – a natural wall of rock that stands more or less vertical. It offered the artists who worked here in ...

Newly uncovered cave art in Europe has revealed that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic expression long before modern humans arrived, rewriting the story of human cultural origins. Researchers ...