The rock art depicts animals, human and hand figures, reptiles, geometric patterns, honey bees, human figures with elongated ...

The limestone canyons along the Pecos River in southwest Texas are covered in ancient art. Painted by unidentified Indigenous ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

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 ...

Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples. Paint Rock, a half-mile-long bluff in central Texas, is home to roughly 1,500 painted Native ...

You could say that Mill Valley artist George Mead’s paintings hold a larger-than-life place in the history of rock art.

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a resource ...

Learn about the ancient story of Pecos River rock murals in Texas and Mexico, representing the Mesoamerican worldview through ...

There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin ...