Archaeologists have made an incredible finding of a human drawing that dates back more than 70,000 years, making it the oldest human drawing ever discovered. The rest of this article is behind a ...

For artists, few objects are as challenging to capture as the human form. To render the figure on canvas or paper requires mastery of contouring, shading, perspective, proportion and countless other ...

Scientists have come across what they claim to be the earliest-known human drawing in South Africa. The etching, reminiscent of a hashtag, was drawn with an ochre crayon on silcrete rock, and was ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest human-made drawings ever found. Discovered in a cave in South Africa, the cross-hatch pattern was drawn in red ochre and found to date back over 70 ...

Neanderthals died out about 60,000 years ago–and it may be associated with their poor artistic skills. A new study from UC Davis examines how Neanderthals’ lack of drawing ability, and Homo sapiens’ ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Your college art history textbook needs a new first chapter. The earliest known drawing in human history – a red, cross-hatched pattern that looks somewhat like a hashtag – has been unearthed on a ...

Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck. Maybe you’d sketch this: Easy enough. But then, imagine you were asked to draw a pig truck. You, a human, would intuitively understand how to mix ...

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