For 4,000 years the meaning of mysterious markings on a Bronze Age stone slab have remained a secret. Not anymore, however. That's because scientists are now treating the engraved rock as a 'treasure ...

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How do you find out the age of ancient rock art? And more importantly, how can you do that without disturbing the site? Meinrat and Tracey Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry recently ...

Ph.D. student Lena Dubinsky and Prof. Leore Grosman from the Computational Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology have pioneered a new method to study rock ...

Dr Tammy Hodgskiss is the curator at the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Amanda Esterhuysen manages the Origins Centre, and is a member of the School of Geography, Archaeology ...

VALLEYFORD, Wash. – Vinnie Pecht has a very simple description of what he does for a living. “I basically engrave rocks,” said Pecht, the owner of Industrial Custom Creations. “So whatever somebody ...

A tourist guide introduces to visitors at the Twyfelfontein rock engraving site in Kunene Region, Namibia, March 26, 2024. Twyfelfontein is one of the largest and most concentrated sites of rock ...

Researchers have developed a new method using ArchCUT3-D software to study rock engravings, integrating technological and visual analysis to reveal intricate details of ancient techniques. This new ...