A member of the now-extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by ...

The oldest known shell to have been engraved by an early human has been uncovered in a Dutch museum collection, where it remained unnoticed since the 1930s. The ancient mollusc, originally discovered ...

The mussel shell found in Indonesia scratched with a zigzag believed made by Homo erectus, which would make it the oldest art (all photos courtesy Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam) The ...