The ancient San culture lived in the South African Karoo, an arid region with ancient rock formations, according to a study ...

A 200 year old painting in a cave on the La Belle France farm in the Free State province of South Africa, may be the world's oldest known piece of paleo-art depicting an extinct mammal-like reptile ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study. A mysterious tusked animal ...

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first ...

A new project is assessing the influence of ancient rock art on the modern art of Indigenous peoples in Central Asia and ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues ...

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils ... Tying dicynodont fossils to both San myths and art shifts the perspective of the ...

Researchers have long sought to identify a long-bodied animal depicted in the rock art with downward-turned tusks that doesn’t match any known modern species. The Karoo Basin of South Africa is ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo ...

Tapped to curate a new section of the fair, Yinka Shonibare, Zenib Sedira and Lubaina Himid discuss what has been lost, and gained, since Brexit hit the London art market. The collector and ...