Located in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, the Dazu Rock Carvings have held UNESCO World Heritage status since 1999 ...

(Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings.) The north panel of the Kusari rock-shelter’s rock art is seen first without enhancement and then with DStretch.

An ochre dot in Spain may hold one of the oldest, most complete Neandertal fingerprints, hinting at symbolic behavior in our ancient relatives.

On a remote peninsula in Western Australia, a 16-hour drive from the nearest city, 30,000-year-old faces stare at the rare visitor to this wild location. Those human depictions are part of ...

Roughly 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man dipped his finger in red ocher and painted a nose on a rock that looked like a human face. This is the scenario presented by archaeologists in a paper ...

rock-cut niches in the steep cliffs and a rock shelter delimited by walls consisting of carved sandstone blocks. While doing fieldwork in southern Madagascar in the 1990s, Schreurs heard about the ...

During the survey, researchers noticed a rock shelter “carved into a cliff face about 40 meters (130 feet) above the stream” with some stone artifacts nearby. Curious, they decided to investigate.

He examined several rock shelters carved with dot patterns that closely resembled game boards found in southwestern Asia and Egypt; the best of those was found at the Çapmalı rock shelter near ...

Sprawled across 75 recognized cultural relics protection zones, the site shelters over 50,000 breathtaking statues. As one of the eight great grottoes of the world, Dazu Rock Carvings epitomize ...

Sprawled across 75 recognized cultural relics protection zones, the site shelters over 50,000 breathtaking statues. As one of the eight great grottoes of the world, Dazu Rock Carvings epitomize the ...