The next time you’re feeling creative, why not pick up a rock and transform it into something beautiful and inspirational? While rock painting technically dates back to prehistoric times, it's gained ...

For more than 200 years, Nordic Bronze Age rock art has sparked the interest of academics. Yet we still know surprisingly ...

Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago. Now, a ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. At least 2,000 years ago, people living along South America’s ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, archaeologists have shed light on the meaning of ancient rock art from the Amazon rainforest in a study. A trio of researchers has been ...