The standout images are ships, some carved upright, others upside down, packed with small human figures whose heads are unusually clearly defined. Fjeld and his daughter also spotted the “sole of a ...

The staggering amount of rock art on the shoreline near Alta in Northern Norway depicts hunting, trapping, fishing and other everyday activities from hunter-gatherer life thousands of years ago. It’s ...

A man on a hike with his family in the countryside outside of Oslo, Norway, has stumbled across a rock face covered in Bronze Age paintings. The discovery did not, however, come as a complete surprise ...

Tormod Fjeld, who discovered the art, has found 70 such scenes across the country. The art depicts ships and human prints.

Over 2,000 Stone Age carvings could be damaged if plans for a new quarry on the Aksla mountain go ahead. The Vingen rock art site, with one of the petroglyphs visible in the foreground. Photo courtesy ...