SYDNEY (Reuters) -Securing World Heritage status for Australia's Murujuga rock art will help protect the ancient Indigenous carvings, located in an industrial hub, the government said on Saturday.

CHONGQING, China, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Located in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, the Dazu Rock Carvings have held UNESCO World Heritage status since 1999. Sprawled across 75 ...

Dots, tectiforms, and cruciforms cover the surface of the main panel of the Upuigma rock-shelter in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park. The colors have been enhanced by DStretch.

Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings. ... Rio Tinto, blasted a sacred 46,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art shelter, Juukan Gorge, as it expanded an iron ore project.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian minister likened a mining company blasting ancient rock shelters to the Taliban’s destruction of giant Buddha carvings and vowed Thursday to improve ...

During the survey, researchers noticed a rock shelter “carved into a cliff face about 40 meters (130 feet) above the stream” with some stone artifacts nearby. Curious, they decided to investigate.

The site is probably not as old as the Leo Petroglyphs, dating from perhaps 800 years ago. Although Inscription Rock is also protected by a modern shelter, the rock has been so eroded that it’s ...

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters (Madhya Pradesh) – Over 100,000 Years Old. ... These monuments, spanning from prehistoric rock shelters to intricately carved temples, ...

He examined several rock shelters carved with dot patterns that closely resembled game boards found in southwestern Asia and Egypt; the best of those was found at the Çapmalı rock shelter near ...

Located in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, the Dazu Rock Carvings have held UNESCO World Heritage status since 1999. ... the site shelters over 50,000 breathtaking statues.