A short drive from Phoenix, this Arizona hiking trail leads through the cactus-studded Superstition Wilderness to a mystical canyon with ancient petroglyphs.

The El Venado petroglyphs are etched onto a rock wall in the municipality of Atotonilco de Tula, 88 kilometers north of ...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named ...

Trace Indigenous history this fall on sacred hiking trails across the U.S., from canyon dwellings to forest mounds and ...

With that in mind, enjoy the journey to these ten archaeological sites in Colorado. Visit the state’s only UNESCO World ...

Clear Creek Canyon is a three-mile-long desert ravine located in south-central Utah in the United States. A small stream runs down its center, running along an interstate highway and flowing by a ...

The majority of the carvings are of elk or moose. There are lines carved in animals’ bodies and lines connecting the animals to a circle or sun - either a representation of a heart or the source of ...

Beneath the shifting shadows of California’s redwood curtain, Highway 101 cuts through a dim, perpetual twilight. Between glimpses of wild rivers and backwoods compounds, travelers pass driveways that ...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named Saleh Idris stood beside a test trench, awaiting the next bucket of sediment ...

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 ...

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Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...