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The tale behind the world's oldest known cave painting
Depiction of wild pig, believed to be at least 45,500 years old, adds to a growing number of cave art finds in Indonesia
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Indonesian archaeologist Basran Burhan and his colleagues had finished scouring untouched sites in their search for ancient relics, but undiscovered prehistoric paintings on rocks, which they were looking for, still eluded them.
Undeterred, they went back to the drawing board - in this case, Google Maps, to zoom in on unexplored caves in the region.
