(Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to ...

View gallery - 4 images The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and ...

The camels at Jebel Misma have been frozen in a march for 12,000 years. “They are really spectacular,” says paleoanthropologist Michael Petraglia. “They’re beautiful, monumental.” Rock art has been ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered 12,000-year-old life-sized animal etchings — "monumental rock art" that dates to over 2,000 years before humans were thought to be in the region, a new ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Petroglyphs are carved in a material called rock varnish, the origins of which have been debated for years. Now, scientists argue it's the result of bacteria and an adaptation that protects them from ...

The rock art is near Nefud desert of northern Saudi Arabia Camels, ibex, gazelles, wild donkeys and aurochs depicted Sept 30 (Reuters) - About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered hundreds of rock art engravings that were carved by humans more than 12,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...