Over 50,000-year-old cave painting is oldest story-related artwork

A painting that dates back more than 50,000 years is the oldest piece of story-related artwork yet discovered, experts have said. The cave painting which was found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, shows three human-like figures carrying rods standing in front of a wild pig. Researchers from Griffith University in Australia said the image is ‘now the earliest known surviving example of representational art, and visual storytelling in the world’. Dating back at 51,200 years, it is considerably older than the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, in France, which...