The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...

(Reuters) -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 ...

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on ancient Murujuga rock art, before granting the company a ...

Researchers positively identified 60 rock art panels in addition to 176 engravings located in areas which were previously unexplored. Of the engravings, 130 images are life-sized depictions of animals ...

One of the leaders of a $30 million study into the impact of industrial emissions on rock art in WA's north has accused the government of misrepresenting his findings. He has quit the project and says ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave ...

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. Standing on a narrow ledge and with primitive tools, they engraved into the ...

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...