Public outrage over the Supreme Court's hill definition in the Aravalli range highlights its geological, cultural, and historical significance to India.

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

Mesmerizing sea caves are found throughout the world. They form when wave action from the sea erodes sediments along coastlines, primarily in high-energy tidal environments. Over millions of years, ...

California is a great place for spelunking -- aka exploring caves. While you might think one cave is like another, each one ...

From Santa Barbara, take U.S. Route 101 north, then turn onto State Route 154 toward Los Padres National Forest. From there, snake your way up Painted Cave Road, a treacherous strip of asphalt lacking ...

Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

Dots, lines, and symbols found beside Ice Age cave paintings have puzzled archaeologists for decades. New research suggests ...

Built around 4,000 B.C.E. this subterranean burial ground amplifies sound at a soothing frequency.

At the threshold of Far West Texas, the Lower Pecos Canyonlands contain some of North America’s most remarkable rock art. Here, where the Pecos and Devils rivers join the Rio Grande, on cave walls, ...

Cut from a sheer cliff face nearly a thousand years ago, India's Ajanta Caves are home to sacred Buddhist spaces adorned with vibrant works of ancient art. Carved in timeThe Buddhist cave temples near ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...