Mysterious Sand Drawings. Scientists Discover Coastal Etchings from 140,000 Years Ago.
During vacations, we love to relax by the sea. On the beach, we build grand sandcastles with our children. Sometimes, we also write with sticks on the flat expanse of sand prepared by the waves. It turns out that as far back as 140,000 years ago, people were creating drawings in the sand.
When we think of prehistoric art, images from France or Spain come to mind. For instance, in the Lascaux Cave, people created hundreds of depictions of animals and mysterious hybrids around 17,000 years ago. These artworks are exceptionally realistic and full of color. In 1994, in the French Chauvet Cave, a gallery of cave lions, mammoths, bears, and rhinoceroses was discovered. The paintings in this cave are among the oldest of their kind, dating back over 30,000 years. However, humans demonstrated their affinity for art much earlier. A recently assembled team of scientists from the United Kingdom and South Africa has gathered quite fascinating evidence on this topic.
