Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk ...

But Benoit, who works at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has a different perspective. He says the animal ...

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa.

The painting was created by the San people of southern Africa between 1821 and 1835. Called “the Horned Serpent panel,” the ...

I considered other possibilities – might it be a pig, a warthog or an elephant ... Read more: Rock painting is the oldest image of an African rail, a bird that may have had a special ...

Buyers will be offered everything from Chinese contemporary painting to a silver throne and pop art in works collected by Ray ...

The extraordinary collection of Sydell Miller, known to reflect her philosophy of life, will headline Sotheby's marquee sales ...