Ancient Influence on Art The San people were known to include elements from their environment in their artwork. So fossils, which are often found in South Africa, may have influenced their ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Ancient rock paintings discovered in the Amazon have unveiled extinct species a remarkable 2,000 years before their scientific identification. This groundbreaking revelation sheds light on the ...

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It’s another piece of data in a scientific debate over when our ancient ancestors reached the Americas. For decades, ...

Visitors to northeastern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region might also accidentally stumble into another country entirely. Tiny San Marino is Europe’s smallest democracy and has ancient traditions dating ...

Ancient San rock art in a cave on the La Belle France farm in the Free State province of South Africa reveals earliest known depiction of extinct Dicynodont.

Stephen Townley Bassett has dedicated decades to documenting and recreating ancient rock art found in Southern Africa, made by the San indigenous people. Look through the gallery to see more.

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and agricultural terraces. The regional chiefdom society also had a distinctive ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

In the Karoo region of South Africa, an ancient people left behind art that stumped researchers for more than a century. Marlin Clark via Unsplash Throughout modern history, humans have discovered ...