A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

The discovery of ancient rock art goes far beyond visual appreciation. Recent studies have uncovered that prehistoric artists intentionally painted in places where sound played an essential role in ...

Is it possible for us to understand the meaning behind prehistoric rock art? In this video, ancient historian Tristan ...

Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, ...

Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain have uncovered a rock which contains ancient prehistoric engravings, Ancient Origins reported. The remarkable artifact was discovered in the Coto Correa site in ...

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 ...

Authorities in Utah are asking the public to help it determine who damaged a petroglyph panel with illegally installed climbing bolts. The bolts were found east of Jensen in Uintah County on what's ...