The Cape Town-born artist has spent decades visiting many of the thousands of ancient rock art sites that dot South Africa, in order to meticulously produce millimeter-accurate copies of humanity ...

Discover the stunning 12,500-year-old rock art of Colombia's Amazon rainforest in our latest video, "12,500-Year-Old Rock Art: A Glimpse into Prehistoric Amazon." This ancient artwork reveals a world ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...

For years Murujuga elders and scientists have been trying to determine whether industrial development on the Burrup Peninsula over the past 60 years is degrading ancient rock art. The latest ...

Until now, research on rock art and burials in north Africa focused on areas like the Nile Valley, the Sahara or the Atlas Mountains. Our discoveries reveal that Morocco’s north-western coast ...

"Northern and Western Australia are some of the few areas left in the world where you can still make rock art discoveries of this kind," said Tacon. "In Europe, America, Asia and Africa most of the ...

On Friday, the West Australian government released the long-awaited results from its ongoing Rock Art Monitoring Program, which is studying petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula, or Murujuga ...

The latest findings from the Western Australian government-backed Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program – which studies whether emissions from heavy industry on the Burrup Peninsula are ...

A professor of archaeology has accused a state government of lying in a report about the impact of industrial emissions on Aboriginal rock art. UWA professor of archaeology Benjamin Smith said he ...

The peninsula in Western Australia’s north is home to between one and two million pieces of Aboriginal rock art believed to be up to 50,000 years old. The draft decision released overnight said ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has accused a United Nations-linked international cultural heritage organisation of putting ...