In the south of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in the cave of Leang Karampuang, archaeologists from the Griffith and Southern Cross universities and the Indonesian National Agency have discovered a painting of three anthropomorphic figures and a boar. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the finding has been dated by an innovative method that analyzes carbonates close to the pigments through the laser.

And the result has been clear: the work is at least 51,200 years old. This means that the scene that appears in the image on the left is the oldest figurative or narrative painting ever found.