Ancient life-sized rock art in northern Arabia reveals how early people marked water, routes, and resources across the desert ...

That’s the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and once word gets out about what’s inside, you’ll understand why locals can’t stop raving about it. Nestled on the University of Pennsylvania campus, this ...

Nomads who created these monumental images had apparently found a way to survive the arid conditions of the desert, and they ...

Details: The Arkhaios Film Festival will be Sunday, October 19 from 2–5 p.m. at the Kimbell Art Museum in the Piano Pavilion Auditorium, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth. Free; no registration ...

The discovery changes everything we thought we knew about Palaeolithic pigment use in Europe, said archaeologist Wisher.

In total, we identified more than 60 rock art panels containing 176 engravings in three previously unexplored areas – Jebel Arnaan, Jebel Mleiha and Jebel Misma. The engravings include 130 images of ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s ...

An international team of archaeologists has discovered several mysterious, 12,000-year-old rock art "road signs" in the ...

The team found that the pigment was azurite, a deep-blue copper mineral. At ~13,000 years old, it represents the earliest ...

Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources during one of history's harshest climate periods.

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered hundreds of rock art engravings that were carved by humans more than 12,000 ...