It's the ancients on History Hit, our interest in Hughes' your host and in today's podcast

I'm delighted to say, I'm very excited to say that we are talking about a groundbreaking

new archaeological discovery.

We're going way back.

Now you might have noticed in the news over the past couple of days that archaeologists

have discovered the world's oldest cave art, the world's oldest cave art that we know

of, on Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Now this is an amazing new discovery and I saw it in the news yesterday morning and

thought, right, we've got to get someone on the show Pronto to talk about this new discovery.

I sent an email out to Adam Brum from Griffith University in Australia, Brisbane, Australia,

one of the leading archaeologists behind this new find, one of the leading archaeologists

in the team working on the rock art in Sulawesi.

And he came up very quickly saying he would love to come on the show, which was fantastic

because here's the podcast, here's Adam.

Now this is huge news, this is breaking news.

Well, the joke blogs like me, this is breaking news, not for you guys who've been hiding

it for so long.

You and your team have found, can we say, the oldest figurative cave art that we know

of in early 2021 in the world?

Yeah, yeah, that we know of, that's the key phrase here.

It's the oldest data, this cave painting, which we now have dated to at least 45 and

a half thousand years ago, it's the oldest known dated evidence for representational or

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