A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment over a hand pressed against the rock, are visible on cave walls beneath layers of mineral deposits.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,

MCDONALD COUNTY, Mo. — Deep in the Missouri Ozarks sits Bluff Dwellers Cave, a natural attraction discovered nearly 100 years ago and still owned by the same family today. Ray and Ann Browning operate the cave, which Ray’s grandfather, Arthur Browning, stumbled upon in 1925 while checking traps on his family’s land.

Step off the desert trail and into Arizona’s longest cave, where crystal formations and subterranean wonders await.

Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to witness. The colony is so huge that it turns the sky black as they begin their nightly search for food.

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed on the ground as he waded through the cave’s winding ...