At some 17,000 years old, it's the oldest painting yet discovered in Australia, scientists announced. The kangaroo was painted on the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter in the northeastern Kimberley ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --Scientists have identified a life-size portrait of a kangaroo as Australia's oldest rock painting. The ancient art, described Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior, is between 17 ...

Researchers successfully date Australia's oldest intact rock painting, using pioneering radiocarbon technique. A two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia's Kimberley region has been ...

A team of Australian scientists working in the country’s Balanggarra region say that a painting of a kangaroo on the ceiling of a sandstone rock shelter may be as many as 17,500 years old, which would ...

Inside a large cave in northwestern Australia’s remote Kimberley region, someone painted an elongated, yamlike shape on a ceiling at least 16,000 years ago, new research suggests. That long-ago ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter in Western Australia, making it the oldest known painted figure ever to be found on the continent. Measuring 6 ...

A visitor looks at an artwork at the "Profound and Lasting - Painting Exhibition from Ren Jianguo, Ren Guozhong and Ren Lihong" held in Sydney, Australia, on May 4, 2023. A painting exhibition opened ...

The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...