The oldest portrait ever created has been discovered on the
wall in a cave in France, in an area where a lot of other
prehistoric cave art has been discovered. A rock carving
(petroglyph) has been discovered in Arizona that may have
been carved by ancient Native Americans and may show the
ancient supernova (or star explosion) of 1006.
Adam Sage writes in the Times on Line that, like so much
early art, the French cave portrait was discovered by
accident. It is estimated to be almost 30,000 years old and
was drawn with calcium carbonate. The artist used the
irregularities of the cave wall to emphasize the facial
features. Human bones were found on the floor of the cave
which could be carbon-dated, which helped scientists to date
the drawing, which is about 11,000 years older than the
paintings found in caves at Lascaux, in nearby Dordogne.
Ker Than writes in space.com that the star petroglyph is only
about 1,000 years old, but that's ancient history for North
America.
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