Original article by Giovanni Sabato from “Sciences”, January 2019 Written by Giulia Ragusa, Giorgia Carravetta e Emma Crociani. A cave in Borneo has been found the oldest prehistoric painting in the world by Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist, geologist and Australian professor, in Australia. The painting represents an animal still undefined with red-orange colors, which belongs to the oldest band of rock tradition. On this fresco, handprints have also been found to suggest that rock art was born in Australia between 52,000 and 40,000 years ago, like in our continent. A study in Europe by Martin Sweatman, University of Edinburgh, he exposes that many Turkish, German, Spanish and French rock paintings do not only depict animals but a sort of zodiac that resembles ours; for example, in Lascaux, a French city, the duck represented the sign of the balance; the fact indicates that already very many years ago primitive men had knowledge concerning the sky, the night and the stars.