The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.

The painting was discovered in 2021, and measures 136cm by 54cm. The pig was painted using dark red ochre pigment and has a short crest of upright hair, as well as a pair of horn-like facial warts ...

Painted dog penis bone, believed to be the first of its kind, is unearthed from limestone shaft in Surrey’s Ewell ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone ...

But a new study published in the journal PNAS supports the view that the red ochre pigments discovered in three caves in the Iberian Peninsula are a form of Neanderthal cave art. It states that ...