Still, accurately dating cave paintings is a difficult task. The pigments used to create them, typically iron oxides like hematite ... an attempt to determine the age of the hand paintings.

Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...

Criterion (vi): The Mwari religion, centred on Matobo, which may date back to the Iron Age, is the most powerful oracular ... Further slight damage is being wrought by visitors. In only one cave are ...

Childhood passes in the blink of an eye and before you know it'll be too late to do so many of the things you wanted to do ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

While habitual use of ochre, a soft stone containing iron oxides ... This age range would place the impressions as the earliest known parietal (immobile) art, predating cave paintings like ...

Nestled just outside Little Rock’s hustle, this sprawling treasure cave has Arkansans loading up their vehicles and mapping ...

For visitors to Arkansas, Country Club Flea Market offers insights into regional culture that more tourist-oriented attractions might miss. The objects that Arkansans have valued, preserved, used, and ...

An ancient textile which gives a unique insight into Iron Age Scotland is to go on display for the first time. The piece of fine woven yarn is almost 2,500 years old and dates back to the early to ...

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of ...