Ancient art in caves was unanticipated by many archaeologists, he said. "We were excited to see these things emerge through the process of this analytical technique," Simek said.

Discover the fascinating world of ancient rock art in St. George, Utah, as we explore the incredible petroglyphs that tell ...

For the most part, scientists viewed them as two-dimensional drawings. But the ancient artists actually incorporated bumps, dips, and crevices from the rocks into their art that can't be fully ...

The drawings were found in the Colombian Amazon on a stretch of clift called the Serranía de la Lindosa. The Colombian Amazon “contains one of the richest collections of rock art in the world ...

Children’s Drawings, Grocery Lists, And Other Inscriptions Found On Ancient Egyptian Sherds Egyptologists have uncovered over 18,000 bits of broken pottery used as writing surfaces 2,000 years ago.

The cave documented in 1979 in Tennessee, contained mud drawings, 750 to 800 years old, ... said Stephen Alvarez, a founder of the Ancient Art Archive and a co-author of the study.

The Nazca Lines were created between 200 B.C. and 700 A.D. by the Nazca and potentially pre-Nazca Paracas culture. These large ground drawings measure up to 1,200 feet and depict various animals ...

Join Dr. Margaret Laird to explore how, where, and why nonprofessional artists created pictorial graffiti and drawings of women on walls and other media. Although women were uncommon subjects for ...

The art is not recoverable,” Keryn Walshe, an archaeologist of ancient Aboriginal sites, told the Guardian’s Mostafa Rachwani. “The surface of the cave is very soft.

Lines crafted in an ancient Peruvian desert are more than random curves and angles. People of the Nazca culture—and, potentially, pre-Nazca Paracas culture—created drawings on the ground ...