(Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to ...

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A 2023–2024 re-examination of a small stone palette from the open-air site of Mühlheim-Dietesheim, about 16 kilometers east of Frankfurt, revealed particles of azurite, the earliest confirmed blue ...

The prehistoric paint box and its pigment was found in a palaeolithic riverside campsite. As well as the paintbox itself, archaeologists also found numerous stone tools and arrowheads - and a ring of ...

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. AI-generated illustration. For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, ...

About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist—or perhaps artists—was hard at work.

Vijayanagara The Vijayanagara Exploration Research Team has unearthed significant evidence of a Stone Age settlement at Meenakere village in Kudligi taluk, located on the banks of the ...

Princes of Ancient Greece' at the Getty Villa gives the first look outside Europe at the ancient Greek Griffin Warrior, whose grave held offerings of incomparable artistry.

Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date on when humans returned to Arabia after the last ice age.

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...

The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age.