Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Introduction : three focus areas of current southern African rock art research / Geoffrey Blundell -- Linking sex, species and a supernatural snake at Lab X rock art site / Lara Mallen -- 'The men ...

Study author Dr. Julien Benoit, of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, re-examined the Horned Serpent panel for a new study published in the journal PLOS One. Dr. Benoit found the ...

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 depicted in ...

Follow the thrilling discovery of a 200-year-old rock painting in South Africa that depicts a mysterious horned serpent. Archaeologists have uncovered a rock painting dated to at least 200 years ...

CLANWILLIAM (Reuters) - In the caves of South Africa's Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about living in harmony ...

T he discovery of 200-year-old rock art in South Africa has shed light on the importance of the extinct horned serpent. This ...

The interpretation of part human part animal figures is critical to the understanding of southern African rock paintings, as is the meaning ascribed to the many depictions of eland. The conventional ...

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 study published September 18, 2024 in the ...