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Lubang Jeriji Saléh Cave

World's 'oldest figurative painting' discovered in Borneo cave. New analysis suggests the animal drawings are at least 40,000 years old, say scientists. A painting of wild cattle, dated at about 40,000 years old, in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, part of a large panel containing at least two other animals. A patchy, weathered painting of a beast daubed on the wall of a limestone cave in Borneo may be the oldest known example of figurative rock art, say researchers who dated the work.

Neilson's Hill

What appears to be a previously unreported Rock Art panel aligned E-W with multiple cup and rings (approx 7) plus possible incised lines. The main panel is about 3m long by 1 wide. There is also a small, secondary slab with possible cup marks 5m to the North.

Museums and ancient sites to visit on a trip to Dubai

Dubai is best known for its spectacular modern architecture and vast shopping malls, but there is another side that is hardly known about, with recent archaeological discoveries telling us more about the prehistory of this now largely urbanised settlement. Read on to find out more about ancient Dubai and what there still is to see.

Dolmen dit los Tres Peyres

Dolmen near Causse de Cousis in Midi:Lot (46)

Butt Well

The well head is now dry but water flows freely behind it. It is situated in the woods below the rock on which Stirling Castle stands and can be found by walking along the lower paths into the woods from the bottom of Corn Exchange Road in Stirling.

Caral

Ancient City in Barranca Provence, Peru. Caral's chief excavator, Dr. Ruth Shady Solis, has called Caral "the Mother City" of the Americas. This city of a Late Archaic culture was built and occupied from around 2600 BC to 1900 BC (by carbon dating.) It is considered one of the oldest urban centers in the Americas, substantially predating Mayan, Mississippian, and Aztec cultures.

Kurhany Kolosy

Round Barrows in Swietokrzyskie. A large Bronze Age round barrow is located North-East of the village of Kolosy, in a prominent point of the landscape. It has 13 x 11m in diameter, although originally it was larger. At its top there is a statue of Lord Jesus Christ. Some 100m east of the monument there was another barrow, now ploughed out, in which burials of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Corded Ware culture were found.

Bolton Museum

Bolton Museum has re-opened after an 18 month refit. Explore the new galleries including Bolton’s Egypt which draws on the town’s longstanding association with Egyptology. Bolton’s Egypt features a walk-through replica of the tomb of the ancient pharaoh Thutmose III. The exhibition features over 2,000 artefacts from Bolton’s significant collection.

Low Crag Dyke

Dyke in Yorkshire (North). The grid reference given is where the minor road down to Westerdale cuts through the dyke. This is the northern of the two Bronze Age cross dykes on Castleton Rigg and is a boundary feature. Its overall length across the rigg is about 200m.

Jershøj

A well preserved burial mound overgrown with trees in a field in Bornholm, Denmark.