The first example of a rock engraving attributed to Neanderthals has been discovered in Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. Dated at over 39,000 years old, it consists of a deeply impressed cross-hatching ...

Archaeologists working in the Tangier Peninsula, in northwest Morocco, have discovered ancient cemeteries, rock art and ...

But art, a high expression of ... Some 28km of sea separates Gibraltar from the coast of North Africa, and if you look south from the Rock on a clear day, it's hard to miss Jebel Musa - part ...

Cist burials involved placing a body in a rock-cut depression and covering it with a stone slab, a labor-intensive process ...

A Mediterranean seaside cave in Gibraltar holds what researchers believe is some of Europe's oldest art. The X-shaped markings were etched into the rock walls at least 39,000 years ago ...

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 ...

This is important because it is well known that bears and other animals marked the walls of caves when the rock ... What an ‘art’ find means for human evolution If the Gibraltar find is ...

This year marks the 300th anniversary of Gibraltar's capture from Spain. But the sovereignty of the Rock, off the coast of southern Spain, remains a highly sensitive and politically contentious issue.