The rock art is near Nefud desert of northern Saudi Arabia Camels, ibex, gazelles, wild donkeys and aurochs depicted Sept 30 (Reuters) - About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe ...

About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist—or perhaps artists—was hard at work. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Standing ...

The camels at Jebel Misma have been frozen in a march for 12,000 years. “They are really spectacular,” says paleoanthropologist Michael Petraglia. “They’re beautiful, monumental.” Rock art has been ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

There is no greater symbol of thriving in the desert than the camel. The hunter-gatherers who roamed the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago certainly thought so. High up on desert ...

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 ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

Friends of Sierra Rock Art (FSRA) are serious about protecting the local and semi-local petroglyphs that date back to the year 2000 B.C. Bill Drake is a co-founder of FSRA and was pleased to reveal ...