El Castillo cave art
El Castillo cave art (c.39,000 BCE) The red disk below the hand stencils is the world's oldest painting. World’s Oldest Art Discovered in Indonesia Cave art found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is approximately 40,000 years old. Indonesian and Australian scientists have confirmed that cave art found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is approximately 40,000 years old, pushing back the date of humanity’s oldest art by a couple of thousand years. The art, made from the ochre pigment, included hand-stencils and paintings of local animals, such as the pig-deer or babirusa. According to reports, “the paintings adorn the walls of caves and shelters at the foot of spectacular limestone towers that rise up from the surrounding rice fields near Maros in southwestern Sulawesi.” Archaeologists discovered the Sulawesi cave paintings 60 years ago but assumed that the art was no more than 10,000 years old because they thought that the tropical environment would have destroyed