"Unfortunately, the common practice of visiting a cave was to put your name on it," Britton says. (Credit: EWY ...

Specifically, the carvings represented what we now consider ... that the phenomenon was understood long before the ancient Greeks. "Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of ...

Over the years rock carvings of a previously unknown civilisation have been found in India's western state of Maharashtra. Now, a cave in the same region is promising to shed more light on the ...

When the carvings were ... Unlike cave paintings, say, there is often no organic matter to sample. Rock art of this size is also rare in the region. More ancient discoveries: The researchers ...

Writing in the journal Antiquity, Professor Jan Simek of the University of Tennessee and colleagues have published images of giant glyphs carved ... ancient people rejuvenated a light in the cave ...

Gran Canaria’s Sacred Mountains are an archaeological treasure trove of cave dwellings, carved by ancient hands straight into the rock face. Photograph supplied by Gran Canaria Tourism An ...