Countless figures and symbols have been engraved into the monolith since the ... noticed that many of the petroglyphs on the Rock of the Ingá displayed similarities with writing from the Old ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into the world's largest rock engravings, proposing that they may have been intended to mark territorial boundaries. The pre-Hispanic (or pre ...

Rock engraving at Legend Rock site, Great Basin With permission from the parks where the rock carvings were located, they visited several sites in the North of the Great Basin, an area home to ...

A faint engraving of a reindeer in a South Wales cave looks to be among the oldest rock art known in Britain. Researchers completed an analysis on July 27 that dated the image at roughly 12,600 ...

meaning the person who engraved the rock then owned it. If scientists are correct about the stone’s lineage, it could be one of the oldest examples of rock art known to man.

"It matches what we know today of that ritual." Mulvaney also said his interpretation was supported by a more recent rock engraving of an eagle surrounded by engravings of its modern macropod prey.

"We think it's just the tip of the iceberg as far as rock art is concerned," he told Newsweek. "Sites can just be a single painting or engraving, or they can be several hundred of these motifs ...