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Rock art damage complaint goes to UN rights council

Rock art damage complaint goes to UN rights council

A traditional custodian will tell the UN Human Rights Council the federal government is allowing ongoing industrial damage to world-heritage-listed rock art.

Museum partners with Pacific community on conservation

Museum partners with Pacific community on conservation

Museum partners with Pacific community on conservation

Museum partners with Pacific community on conservation

One Australian museum is starting a major conservation and cultural care program for its Pacific Cultures collection, ensuring preservation for the future.

'Unflattering history' embraced in return of remains

'Unflattering history' embraced in return of remains

'Unflattering history' embraced in return of remains

'Unflattering history' embraced in return of remains

The Australian Museum has formally returned the remains of several Rapa Nui ancestors to Easter Island after purchasing them more than 140 years ago.

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Fossil wonderland submitted for World Heritage listing

Fossil wonderland submitted for World Heritage listing

A 58,000-hectare Australian expanse containing some of the world's oldest evidence of animal life could be included on the prestigious World Heritage list.

Rock art sheds light on migration of early Australians

Rock art sheds light on migration of early Australians

An international team of archaeologists and researchers has found the oldest-known rock art in the world, dating back at least 67,800 years.

Rock art a window into the past that needs protecting

Rock art a window into the past that needs protecting

Protecting Aboriginal rock art sites is important to the global community as a window into the human past, an expert in the field says.

Archaeologists to talk rock art harm at world congress

Archaeologists to talk rock art harm at world congress

The World Archaeological Congress is meeting in Australia for the first time, with industrial threats to ancient Aboriginal sites up for discussion.

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Cave uncovers 12,000-year-old 'time capsule' to Ice Age

Cave uncovers 12,000-year-old 'time capsule' to Ice Age

Cave uncovers 12,000-year-old 'time capsule' to Ice Age

Cave uncovers 12,000-year-old 'time capsule' to Ice Age

Evidence of Indigenous rituals dating back 500 generations has been unearthed in a limestone cave.

Rare artefacts on display for largest pharaohs showcase

Rare artefacts on display for largest pharaohs showcase

Rare artefacts on display for largest pharaohs showcase

Rare artefacts on display for largest pharaohs showcase

An exclusive ancient Egyptian exhibition focusing on pharaohs' lives and the people that served them will display rarely seen artefacts from the British Museum.

Extinct kangaroo fossil uncovered after 50,000 years

Extinct kangaroo fossil uncovered after 50,000 years

Extinct kangaroo fossil uncovered after 50,000 years

Extinct kangaroo fossil uncovered after 50,000 years

A nearly-complete skeleton of an extinct, non-hopping kangaroo species has been painstakingly retrieved, piece by piece from a cave 20 metres underground.

Devil tooth among significant finds at Juukan cave site

Devil tooth among significant finds at Juukan cave site

Devil tooth among significant finds at Juukan cave site

Devil tooth among significant finds at Juukan cave site

Excavations of Indigenous rock shelters in Western Australia destroyed by mining have uncovered a Tasmanian devil tooth and artefacts as well as braided hair.

Feat of clay: oldest pottery sheds light on trade route

Feat of clay: oldest pottery sheds light on trade route

Feat of clay: oldest pottery sheds light on trade route

Feat of clay: oldest pottery sheds light on trade route

A collaboration between traditional owners and researchers has uncovered the oldest pottery made in Australia on an island in the Great Barrier Reef.

Significant find: relic of 1800s jail uncovered in Tas

Significant find: relic of 1800s jail uncovered in Tas

Significant find: relic of 1800s jail uncovered in Tas

Significant find: relic of 1800s jail uncovered in Tas

The relics of an early 19th century jail, which held some of the state's most notorious bushrangers, have been unearthed in the Tasmanian town of Perth.

Illegal links prompt uni to return artefacts to Italy

Illegal links prompt uni to return artefacts to Italy

Illegal links prompt uni to return artefacts to Italy

Illegal links prompt uni to return artefacts to Italy

The Australian National University will return three of its pieces to Italian ownership after they were found to have problematic links.

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Ramses blockbuster to showcase mummified lion cub, cats

A mummified lion cub is amongst some of the more curious ancient artefacts coming to Australia as part of a major exhibition of Egyptian antiquities.

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