This Week In History News, Jan. 10 – 16
World’s oldest figurative art found, astounding revelations about prehistoric megalodon sharks discovered, stories from Hitler’s one-time neighbor revealed. 45,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Of A Pig Found To Be The First Known Piece Of Figurative Art In History Maxime Aubert“When I saw the graphics for the first sentence I was blown off , ” say one of the writer behind this watershed study . Experts have long reserve that human aesthetic expression — and thus abstract opinion and the cognitive leaps that informed it — originated in Europe ....