Images capture the remarkable variety of petroglyphs etched into rock across a wide swathe of land, from Mongolia to the ...

Ancient life-sized rock art found in northern Arabia reveals how early people marked water, routes, and resources across the ...

A rarely-visited World Heritage Site in Malawi has received a boost to its conservation and tourism potential.

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 Cederberg ...

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Azerbaijan is a bridge connecting the past and modern ages, a reserve official told Anadolu Agency in an interview. “Same as Azerbaijan stands as an economic, ...

The Dampier Islands weren't always islands. When people first occupied this part of western Australia some 30,000 years ago, they were the tops of volcanic mountains 60 miles inland. It must have been ...

North America's prehistoric art can sometimes be overlooked, the public's gaze instead entranced by 30,000-year-old drawings in France's Chauvet Cave or 46,000-year-old animal paintings in Sulawesi, ...

In an extremely important archaeological discovery, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers proof that native Californians consumed hallucinogens while making ...

A major original artist painted and chipped on granite rocks from El Cajon to Riverside to Palm Springs. Large mazelike designs, most painted in red ochre, and stark, right-angled fret patterns face ...

Elvis Presley had already been a cultural phenomenon. Phil Spector was sneaking some of those fusty philharmonic instruments into his Wall of Sound. Bob Dylan was changing the scene with some mighty ...