At its longest it measures 20cm; it is the largest image in a panel of rock art by a San artist that includes probable images of bees, humans, an aardvark, antelope and plants. While it is not ...

Image: Peter Veth, Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter ... Visual arts Get the best tech, science, and ...

"It's a beautiful set of images." [See Photos of the Rock Paintings from Black Dragon Canyon] Amateurs discovered the painting in 1928, and soon after talk of the "winged monster" arose.

Images of the rock art after the team’s analysis show a collection of animal- and human-like figures and no dragon or pterodactyl Le Quellec et al., "The death of a pterodactyl," Antiquity ...

In northwestern Saudi Arabia, a hunter surrounded by a pack of dogs threads an arrow, props it up against the string of his bow, and pulls it back to kill a wild animal roaming nearby. He's ...

Ochre pigment was widely used in prehistoric rock art for its vivid red color, but little is known about how the paint was made. According to a study published November 19 in Scientific Reports that ...

Scientists in India have discovered rock art that appears to depict a supernova ... for the Indian Journal of History of Science. “The image of one of the hunters coincides with the Orion ...

There’s something intriguing, even frightening, about the image of an ancient horned serpent ... The discovery of rock art dated to between 1821 and 1835 adds even more credence to the legend ...