'Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the ...

A dark, ruler-straight band crosses central Zimbabwe in a NASA astronaut image. It is the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, a ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to be ...

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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 ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a rock tomb in the courtyard of a house in the Şanlıurfa province in southeastern Turkey, a discovery that officials say sheds new light on the region’s ancient history.

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