Rock Art

Saving the Rock Art of the Blue Mountains

Saving the Rock Art of the Blue Mountains

There are thousands of sites of pigment art, stencils and engravings across the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, known only to a handful of Indigenous people, bushwalkers and archaeologists. The summer bushfires exposed these artefacts and the race is now on to save them from neglect.

Murujuga World Heritage nomination

Murujuga World Heritage nomination

A decades-long campaign to secure a World Heritage listing for Australia’s largest collection of rock art has finally been taken to UNESCO. The Murujuga cultural landscape in Western Australia, containing over a million petroglyphs, has now made it to the Tentative World Heritage list.