Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there thousands of years ago.

Warangal: Members of the Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam (KTCB), A. Karunakar and Md. Naseeruddin, discovered a new prehistoric rock art site in Yadgarpally village of Keesara mandal, ...

New data on prehistoric footprints suggest they are the earliest ever found in North America, dating to 23,000 years ago—thousands of years before humans were previously believed to have made their ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Monumental rock art in Arabia reveals how ancient communities survived, thrived, and expressed identity in a once forbidding ...

Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig ...

Researchers say the monumental rock art marked scarce water sources and migration routes, serving as statements of presence and cultural identity roughly 12,000 years ago.

"A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. For more than ...

A scientist from Guangdong, China plans to appeal to the Tibetan government to conserve recently discovered fossils of handprints and footprints on a rock on the world’s highest plateau—because they ...

Hunter-gatherers in what is now Russia likely viewed the wooden sculpture as an artwork imbued with ritual significance. Sverdlovsk Regional Museum Gold prospectors first discovered the so-called ...

An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now. A skull cap belonging ...