World's Oldest Figurative Cave Painting Discovered in Indonesia

A discovered cave painting portraying a hunting scene is currently making news headlines as it appears to be the oldest example of figurative art made by the hands of man. Roughly 44,000 years old, an Indonesian archaeologist named Pak Hamrullah initially confronted the work back in 2017 inside a Borneo cave in the island of Sulawesi as reported by the BBC. It wasn't until now that Hamrullah's colleague and fellow archaeologist Adam Brumm confirmed with a team of researchers that the ancient pie...