World Heritage listing for a massive collection of remote Indigenous rock engravings has been celebrated but industry ...

Securing World Heritage status for Australia's Murujuga rock art will help protect the ancient Indigenous carvings, located in an industrial hub, the government said on Saturday.

The United Nations cultural organisation has added a remote Aboriginal site featuring one million carvings that potentially date back 50,000 years to its World Heritage list. Located on the Burrup ...

A delegation of Australia's Aboriginal people has travelled to Paris to win UN backing for the protection of a heritage site ...

Media release From: The University of Sydney Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains New evidence overturns theory that high country was unoccupied during ...

Ancient rock art site under threat as Australian government provisionally extends 'carbon bomb' gas project The 50,000-year-old carvings on the Burrup Peninsula include the earliest-known ...

Ancient cave paintings, have become invaluable records of animal species that once roamed Earth alongside our ancestors.

Scientists barred from the ancient Koonalda Cave in South Australia following a dispute between Indigenous groups say it’s time for Premier Peter Malinauskas to step in and resolve the impasse ...

If every person in Australia had one Aboriginal painting on their walls, imagine the conversations that would start happening among people who don’t necessarily know much about it.

The art is preserved behind a layer of calcium carbonate which formed over the cave wall over thousands of years — trapping the art like an insect in amber. Previous dating techniques, called ...

Two slightly burnt, fat-covered sticks discovered inside an Australian cave are evidence of a healing ritual that was passed down unchanged by more than 500 generations of Indigenous people over ...