offering a deep dive into ancient art. The 5th- to 8th-century Elephanta Caves, carved into basalt rock, house stunning Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, with the colossal Trimurti Shiva statue as ...

The 'City of Caves', on an island in the Sea of Oman close to Mumbai, contains a collection of rock art linked to the cult of Shiva ... The small island is dotted with numerous ancient archaeological ...

Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

The discovery adds to a growing body of ancient art known in Southeast Asia that changes some long-standing ideas about when and where humans started showing our defining cognitive traits.

But to understand how rising heat is affecting this ancient art form, we need more ethnographic studies," he adds. Sumit Dookia, associate professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds.

The monastery of Casamari in Italy was built in the 11th century on the foundations of a temple dedicated to Ceres, the Greek ...