MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Damage caused to an Aboriginal rock shelter by mining giant Rio Tinto in August underscores the need for better heritage protection laws and a greater say for Indigenous groups ...

Ancient Aboriginal rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art detailing kangaroos, turtles and humans on boulders in the remote Pilbara ...

SYDNEY, New South Wales (AFP) – Solving the mystery of how 900-year-old African coins ended up in remote Australia could not only recast the history of foreign contact Down Under, but shed light on ...

A project, supported by the Australian Geographic Society, is using X-rays to uncover hidden Aboriginal rock art. WHEN AN ARTEFACT must be destroyed in order to reveal the secrets it holds, you might ...

MELBOURNE, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto RIO.AX has found no damage to the structure of a rock shelter at an Aboriginal heritage site in Western Australia that was impacted by blasting at ...

The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...

In a devastating hit to global world heritage, vandals struck South Australia’s Koonalda Cave on on Nullarbor Plain, destroying 30,000-year-old artwork at the national heritage site. The cave is ...

From at least the middle of the 17th century to as recently as 1906 fleets of Makassan praus made their way through the eastern islands of the Indonesian Archipelago to Kai Jawa, the Kimberley coast ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

A furious row has broken out over an Aboriginal Land Council's plan to build 450 new homes at a bushland haven for native wildlife and ancient art. The $1billion development has infuriated residents ...