The limestone canyons along the Pecos River in southwest Texas are covered in ancient art. Painted by unidentified Indigenous ...

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 ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

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 ...

Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples. Paint Rock, a half-mile-long bluff in central Texas, is home to roughly 1,500 painted Native ...

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a resource ...

I had already hiked 50 miles to reach this gritty wall of lichen-covered sandstone. Several small caves honeycombed the steep face, many of them just wide enough for me to shimmy into. The sandstone ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of an Indigenous artistic tradition that was painted along the U.S.-Mexico border for ...

Sam Challis receives funding from the South African NRF African Origins Platform and is a member of the Bradshaw Foundation Rock Art Network Brent Sinclair-Thomson received funding for this research ...

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