For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted themselves. Faces were missing, bodies were simplified, and human ...

Ancient Greece’s sculptures are a cornerstone of world art, studied for their lasting influence on culture and artistic ...

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Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...