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The world’s oldest artwork has been discovered on the ceiling of an Indonesian island cave – but can you tell what the images are? The artwork has been confidently dated back to 51,200 years ...
The entrance to Leang Karampuang cave, where some of the oldest cave art has been found. | Google Arts & Culture. One painting of a hunting scene, previously estimated to be at least 43,900 years ...
A depiction of three humanoid figures and a pig, the painting is the oldest known scene created by humans, dated to at least 51,200 years ago, scientists say. Sign up. Advertisement.
Who was Merlin the Great, really? Here’s the history. Medieval writers transformed tales of an obscure bard into legends of a mighty wizard who put King Arthur on the throne of Camelot.
The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.
In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight.
Torn, folded and stitched, rare tales of Merlin shapeshifting into King Arthur’s court and Sir Gawain gaining power from the sun were bound into a book of property records from the 1500s.