Rock art was first found in this part of Chile by anthropologists in the early 20th century. Nestled between the ocean and the desert is a valley called El Médano, where the first rock art in ...

For the past five years archaeologists have been tracking a series of rock art findings in north-central Chile’s Limari Valley. The experts involved say finding traces of the visual language ...

The geoglyphs in this 200 million-year-old desert have baffled scientists who are scratching their heads about where they've come from. Geoglyphs are a type of land art, occasionally rock art ...

For more than 12,500 years, one of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock paintings lay undiscovered in Colombia’s Amazonian rainforest. Now, researchers are digging into their ...

T he climate crisis is speeding up the deterioration of some of the world’s oldest cave paintings, experts say.. The paintings in Indonesia, which are up to 45,000 years old, include the oldest ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far ...

A painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia is the oldest known rock art in the country, according to scientists, who say radiocarbon-dating analysis shows it was created more than 17,000 years ...

But the recent discovery of 200-year-old rock paintings found in South Africa now has scientists hypothesizing that this ancient creature may have been far more than just a legend.

Nostalgia for the Light focuses on the Atacama Desert, a 600-mile stretch of high plateau in northern Chile that is the driest place on earth — it never rains. Composed of salt, sand and lava ...

Cave paintings dating back an estimated 28,000 years found in Australia and featuring pornographic scenes show that men have had one thing on their mind for a very long time.

Reliable dating of ancient rock art from south-west France and northern Spain dates back 30,000 years. Mr Gunn, a Victoria-based private consultant employed by Aboriginal group the Jawoyn ...

Thousand-Year-Old Rock Art Likely Served as a Gathering Point for Llama Caravans Crossing the Andes Trade caravans, whether supported by mules, camels or llamas, have helped archaeologists piece ...