16 June 2023
A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient people in the region expressed their creativity, including sculpted figurines, a communal drum and perhaps a previously unrecognised form of writing
5 April 2023
Chemical analysis of metal sculptures made in West Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries provides evidence that may reshape the understanding of Germany’s involvement with the Benin Bronzes
2 March 2023
A moai statue has been discovered on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, at the bottom of a lake that has been shrinking for several years
4 January 2023
Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing
1 December 2022
Slate plaques from about 5000 years ago engraved with images of what look like owls may have been children’s artwork rather than funeral offerings, but not everyone is convinced
21 November 2022
The performance of image-generating AIs drops when trained using images previously created by other AIs, which may create problems for them given the proliferation of these images
25 October 2022
After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI
27 July 2022
Murujuga in Western Australia holds more than 2 million engravings that have been added over at least 50,000 years - and may provide a glimpse into how the region's climate and vegetation have changed
9 June 2022
The 500-year-old frescoes in Rome’s Villa Farnesina are being protected from air pollution by trees in the building's garden
13 May 2021
The increasing severity and frequency of droughts in the tropics due to climate change may be accelerating the destruction of Palaeolithic rock paintings in Indonesia
