JAKARTA: The government has pledged to protect archaeological sites in Southeast Sulawesi, especially a cave on Muna Island where the world's oldest rock art was discovered amid mounting concerns over ...

Culture Minister Fadli Zon highlights that 67,800-year-old rock paintings in Sulawesi prove Indonesia is among the oldest civilizations in the world.

The world's oldest rock art discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may shed light on the early migration routes of modern humans and the settlement of Australia. The found image is ...

The latest rock art found on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, a faded hand stencil made out of ocher that may be made at least 67,800 years ago, might provide more clues for archaeologists about how ...

The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling ...

Following the publication of a study on the world’s oldest-dated rock art in Southeast Sulawesi, Culture Minister Fadli Zon ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said Wednesday, and ...

Though it now exists only as a centimeters-wide fragment, the stencil is a landmark find.

Researchers say a faint drawing of a human hand discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna may be the oldest known ...

The painting of the hand is over 15,000 years older than another cave painting on Sulawesi that researchers found in 2024, ...