In a devastating hit to global world heritage, vandals struck South Australia’s Koonalda Cave on on Nullarbor Plain, destroying 30,000-year-old artwork at the national heritage site. The cave is ...

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This epic final chapter captures the culmination of a four-month voyage through some of the most remote and untamed parts of Australia. From ancient Aboriginal cave art and hidden waterfalls to ...

Scholars have called it “the most important rock art site in North America” on account of 290 prehistoric glyphs adorning its walls. Ancient Native American art inside Missouri's Picture Cave (all ...

Two slightly burnt, fat-covered sticks discovered inside an Australian cave are evidence of a healing ritual that was passed down unchanged by more than 500 generations of Indigenous people over the ...

On the walls of London’s Australia House last week, painted beings with white, mouthless faces wavered. Some of them appeared to be swimming in seas of little kangaroos, ducks, lilies and yams. They ...

A life size kangaroo painted in red ochre around 17,300 years ago is Australia’s oldest known rock art. This indicates that the earliest style of rock art in Australia focused on animals, similar to ...

René d'Harnoncourt papers, 1921-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Reels 2919-2931: Authorization to publish requires written permission from Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.

What started as a scenic hike to a remote Northern Territory lagoon nearly ended in disaster for Aussie adventurer Jackson Coffey and his girlfriend. The couple had climbed high into the rocky ...