Discover the ancient art in Altamira Cave, a prehistoric marvel.

Prehistoric rock art located in the Altamira Cave in Cantabria, Spain, dating back 36,000 to 14,000 years ago, and is believed to have been created by...

Henri Breuil, a French archaeologist and priest, and often called the Abbé Breuil, was born Feb. 28, 1877. Breuil visually recorded some of the first

When was art born? Have you ever thought about art in that aspect? Was the birth of art incidental or something that came about due to deliberate thought and action? We are sure that the

Reproduction of a Paleolithic cave painting of bisons from the Altamira cave, Cantabria, Spain (replica), painted c. 20,000 years ago (Solutrean). (Thomas Quine/CC BY SA 2.0)

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Get the free 2-year set of blogs from DeconstructingTime in a PDF eBook. Click now to view a PDF version online and/or to download the PDF file. More than 10,000 years before the earliest beginnings of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia and about 5,000 years even before the start of agriculture, cavemen were creating sophisticated and accurate paintings in color of animals that they hunted and ate. In the pitch dark of the Altamira cave in Western Spain -- two hundred meters or so from…

Caves of Altamira in Cantabria.