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 ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

The Australian government recently extended the life of a liquified natural gas project near a 50,000-year-old rock art site in a remote area of the country, prompting an archaeologist to raise alarms ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage in Morocco have discovered ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rock tomb in the courtyard of a house in the Şanlıurfa province in southeastern Turkey, a discovery that officials say sheds new light on the region’s ancient history.

Peter Holley is a senior writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas. The first obstacle to deciphering the White Shaman mural is reaching it. The journey ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and perilous – creative feats of ancient humans, with researchers arguing that the ...