Archaeologists found thousands of drawings and stencils in a warren of limestone caves in remote mountains on the island of Borneo. But no one... Indonesian Caves Hold Oldest Figurative Painting Ever ...
Other caves, at lower elevations, were like giant storm drains—massive holes in the bedrock that channeled rainfall into subterranean rivers. These river caves were younger, formed hundreds of ...
On the wall of a cave deep in the jungles of Borneo, there is an image of a thick-bodied, spindly-legged animal, drawn in reddish ocher. It may be a crude image. But it also is more than 40,000 years ...
Deep in the heart of Borneo’s rainforest, inside Malaysia’s Gunung Mulu National Park, lies the Sarawak Chamber, a colossal ...
The oldest known figurative cave art painting in the world may be a 40,000-year-old rendering of a species of wild cattle found in a Borneo cave by a group of Griffith University researchers. It is ...
IN a day when human sacrifices were made to pagan gods, when head-hunting was a happy pastime and human heads hung from native roofs as coconuts hang from trees, the bird’s nest caves were to early ...
This composite image from the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the world's oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of 40,000 years, in a limestone cave in the Indonesian part of the ...
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