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Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art. Dots, tectiforms, and ...

Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...

If you look backward through the history of rock 'n' roll, you'll find that the ratio of women to men has always been, in a word, unbalanced. At the time of this writing in 2025, less than 10 percent ...

It had taken an iconoclastic German anthropologist, Leo Frobenius, to recognise the importance of the paintings in the state’s almost impenetrable Kimberley region and bring them south. His eponymous ...

Researchers identified for the first time the remarkable meaning behind the artwork. Men’s Journal aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we ...

Life-size engravings in Al Nafud desert reveal early artistic skill and prehistoric life Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission announced the discovery and documentation of an extraordinary ...

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 have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles, and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. Dating back approximately 12,000 years, many of these carvings stand over six ...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named Saleh Idris stood beside a test trench, awaiting the next bucket of sediment ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered three ancient rock art sites, dated to 12,000 years old, in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The art is the earliest evidence of human repopulation of the area after it was deserted ...