NEW YORK — It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing. It’s not the earliest deliberate ...

Archaeologists who excavated a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing. It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock ...

Scientists have found the oldest known drawing in history -- and it looks #familiar. The 73,000-year-old red cross-hatch pattern looks just like a hashtag, also recognizable as the US pound sign, the ...

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A small rock flake no larger than a house key is covered with a colossal surprise: the first known drawing ever made by a human. Some human or humans (Homo sapiens) used a red-ochre crayon to draw a ...

Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in a cave on the southern coast of South Africa, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The drawing, which takes the ...