If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 million years.

Benjamin Smith is a professor of world rock art at the University of Western Australia. (ABC News: Keane Bourke.Despite having had the report since June last year, the government only released it ...

Friends of Sierra Rock Art (FSRA) are serious about protecting the local and semi-local petroglyphs that date back to the year 2000 B.C. Bill Drake is a co-founder of FSRA and was pleased to reveal ...

Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

GUWAHATI: Archaeologists in Mizoram discovered rock art, believed to be from the 16th to 19th centuries.The discoveries were made during a village-to-village su ...

Bhopal: In a significant discovery, archaeologists have found Stone Age rock art (petroglyphs) sites in the Kuno National Park, home to cheetahs, in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district ...

Deep in the Colombian Amazon region of Serrania De La Lindosa, a roughly 12-mile stretch of rock is covered in a vast tapestry of ochre-colored art. Some of the drawings stretch back more than ...

Similar art in Venezuela was produced in the early part of the Archaic period of South American history (10,000–3,000 B.C.). (American whalers recorded voyages in Australian rock art, study ...

Part of what makes this ancient rock art so intriguing is that, in a world of geotagged everything, many of these ancient relics remain undocumented. They sit outdoors, unprotected.

The remarkable rock art sites—dated to between 5000 B.C. and 1500 B.C.—consist of vertical cliffs rising directly from lakes.