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

Researchers have uncovered evidence of an Indigenous artistic tradition that was painted along the U.S.-Mexico border for roughly 175 generations.

You could say that Mill Valley artist George Mead’s paintings hold a larger-than-life place in the history of rock art.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a vibrant scene painted on the overhang of a sandstone cliff in the Koesberg mountains, central South Africa, that’s challenging local traditions of paleontology. Spanning 30-feet in all, it ...

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 ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first humans, ...