{"id":228271,"date":"2026-01-23T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=228271"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:40:53","slug":"worlds-oldest-cave-painting-discovered-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/228271\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest cave painting discovered in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Researchers say a stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The painting has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago – around 1,100 years before the previous record, a controversial hand stencil in Spain.<\/p>\n

In 2014, hand stencils and animal figures dating back at least 40,000 years were found in Sulawesi, followed by a hunting scene that is at least 44,000 year old, and then a narrative pig and human painting dated to at least 51,200 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers say a stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, the BBC writes. The painting has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago – around 1,100 years before the previous record, a controversial hand stencil in Spain. In 2014, hand stencils and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":228247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228272,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228271\/revisions\/228272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}