The carvings were etched into the ceiling of a now-collapsed rock shelter about 37,000 years ago, researchers reported Monday (May 14) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers made replicas of 50 limestone plaquettes excavated from the Montastruc rock shelter in the 19th century that are thought to have been created between 12,000 and 16,000 years ago.

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.

A mineral layer coating Kimberley rock art shelters has been dated to be up to 43,000 years old and it could prove rock carvings are among the oldest art in the world.

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.

Evidence from rock drawings near this shelter suggested that it dated to the second millennium B.C., or about 4,000 years ago, when that part of Azerbaijan was populated by nomadic cattle herders ...

An ochre dot in Spain may hold one of the oldest, most complete Neandertal fingerprints, hinting at symbolic behavior in our ancient relatives.

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 ...

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.

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.

The oldest rock art ever found in Europe reveals an interest in the female form — and the type of décor that the first Europeans preferred for their living spaces. IE 11 is not supported.