Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years.They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict.They also appear to have been an ...

Namibia is home to one of Africa's largest collections of rock art engravings and tens of thousands of paintings attributed to Stone Age hunter-gatherers – some dating back as far as 30 000 ...

Windhoek - German archaeologists have given about 2 000 copies of rock art paintings, including the renowned White Lady of the Brandberg Mountain, to Namibia to help preserve the ancient art. Experts ...

Engravings of animal tracks and human footprints appear in numerous traditions of prehistoric rock art around the world and many of these engravings can be found in Namibia. Detail of Stone Age ...

A remorseless globe of sun is scalding the sky. Rocks scattered on the mountain are too hot to touch. Shade is the only shield from oppression. I’m three hours into climbing Namibia’s remote ...

During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which ...

The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what is now Namibia during the late Stone Age as far back as 5,000 years ago, but potentially more recently—engravings are notoriously difficult ...

At the Twyfelfontein rock art and Unesco heritage site in Namibia, there are tourists from Germany, Spain, France and South Africa. People stir up fine dust that sticks to the rocks,” said Kinahan.

The future of Namibian art. Rogge’s vision – which must be celebrated in their lifetime – has been to give voice to silenced communities and to unlock the potential of emerging artists.

Namibia is home to one of Africa's largest collections of rock art engravings and tens of thousands of paintings attributed to Stone Age hunter-gatherers - some dating back as far as 30,000 years.