Around 39,000 years ago, a Neanderthal huddled in the back of a seaside cave at Gibraltar, safe from the hyenas, lions and leopards that might have prowled outside. Under the flickering light of a ...

An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists ...

OUTSIDE OF FORKS, Clallam County — There hadn’t been any good fishing on the Calawah River the day last December when Erik Wasankari and his son Reid found the rock. It was a damp, cold day when the ...

Mysterious rock carvings engraved into strange shapes are baffling UK archaeologists. One resembles a heart, another a human footprint. Aron Mazel and Stan Beckensall, who stumbled across the unusual ...

Stars and lines engraved in rocks on the Arabian Peninsula may represent nearby hunting traps, making these carvings the first scale-plan diagrams in human history, according to a new study that ...

As water levels dropped, carvings dating back to ancient civilizations were revealed. Archaeologist Jaime Oliveira, from the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan), shows ancient ...

The Dighton Rock boulder is one of those archaeological sites you didn’t know existed in New England. The 11-foot-long, 40-ton sandstone rock features remarkable petroglyph carvings estimated to be ...

BISHOP, Calif. — Rock carvings that graced a sacred American Indian site in California’s Sierra Nevada for thousands of years have fallen prey to modern thieves armed with power saws. At least four ...

PHOENIX – A petroglyph near Phoenix may by the only record in the Western Hemisphere of a supernova that appeared in 1006 — the brightest supernova visible from earth for more than 5,000 years. John ...

Geometric rock carvings that are believed to be at least 3,000 years old were scratched with names and dates at Big Bend National Park in Texas. By Amanda Holpuch Abstract geometric designs at Big ...

Carvings that graced the Sierra Nevada in California for thousands of years have fallen prey to modern thieves armed with power saws. The Los Angeles Times says at least four petroglyphs - some of ...