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Ancient rock art under threat as Australia gives ‘proposed’ approval to gas plant extension
Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by ...
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Ancient rock art site under threat as Australian government provisionally extends 'carbon bomb' gas project
A leading archaeologist has warned of destruction faced by a 50,000-year-old rock art site on the remote Western Australian ...
Archaeologists found a strange red mark on rock. Forensic police helped them unravel who made it
Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at ...
Exploring Hima Cultural Area In Saudi Arabia, One Of The World's Largest Rock Art Complexes
Located in an arid, mountainous region of southwest Saudi Arabia, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has endured for ...
The 50,000-year-old rock art at the centre of a 'big, dirty' gas project controversy
Archaeologists say a federal government decision to extend the life of Woodside's North West Shelf project will threaten the ...
How the North West Shelf expansion risks further damage to Murujuga’s 50, 000-year -old rock art
Murujuga has more than one million petroglyphs, some up to 50,000 years old. The North West Shelf extension places them at ...
UNESCO refers Murujuga World Heritage list bid back to Australia, calls for more protection for rock art
The UN is proposing to knock back Australia's bid to add the Murujuga Cultural Area to the World Heritage list, instead ...
Rock art expert breaks silence over Burrup emissions study controversy
A leading statistician on the Murujuga emissions study has spoken to support an 800-page report days after blasting ...
Scientist expresses concern WA government department interfered with rock art report linked to North West Shelf approval process
A leading scientist has expressed "grave concern" about "unacceptable interference" in a major study of the impacts of ...
‘It’s a cover-up’: Rock art expert accuses WA government of lying in emissions report
UWA archaeologist Professor Ben Smith claims the government lied in the executive summary of an 800-page report on industrial ...
Australia's bid for ancient rock art World Heritage listing stalls over pollution
Australia’s bid to secure World Heritage status for a site with Indigenous rock art estimated to be 50,000 years old has been dealt a blow after a U.N. advisory body warned it was at risk from nearby ...