A faint engraving of a reindeer in a South Wales cave looks to be among the oldest rock art known in Britain. Researchers completed an analysis on July 27 that dated the image at roughly 12,600 years ...

It may look like a cross, but lines scratched into a cave wall could be proof that Neanderthals were more intelligent and creative than previously thought. The cross-hatched engravings inside Gorham's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The rock art panel shows a boat dragged by five figures. It has a standing figure holding an oar ...

How do you find out the age of ancient rock art? And more importantly, how can you do that without disturbing the site? Meinrat and Tracey Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry recently ...

For 4,000 years the meaning of mysterious markings on a Bronze Age stone slab have remained a secret. Not anymore, however. That's because scientists are now treating the engraved rock as a 'treasure ...

The first example of a rock engraving attributed to Neanderthals has been discovered in Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. Dated at over 39,000 years old, it consists of a deeply impressed cross-hatching ...

Ph.D. student Lena Dubinsky and Prof. Leore Grosman from the Computational Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology have pioneered a new method to study rock ...

Scientists are planning to take a fresh look at an engraved rock purported to hold the key to the mysterious “lost colony” of Roanoke. Described as “the coldest case in American history,” the fate of ...

Dr Tammy Hodgskiss is the curator at the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Amanda Esterhuysen manages the Origins Centre, and is a member of the School of Geography, Archaeology ...

VALLEYFORD, Wash. – Vinnie Pecht has a very simple description of what he does for a living. “I basically engrave rocks,” said Pecht, the owner of Industrial Custom Creations. “So whatever somebody ...

A tourist guide introduces to visitors at the Twyfelfontein rock engraving site in Kunene Region, Namibia, March 26, 2024. Twyfelfontein is one of the largest and most concentrated sites of rock ...