At Nevada’s newest national monument, you can hike through twisted sandstone sculptures, tour outdoor galleries of ancient rock art, explore a historic ghost town and stare down the Devil’s Throat.

People have been vandalizing the iconic landscape of Zion National Park more and more recently, park officials said. Blue spray paint and muddy handprints have splattered sandstone walls, names were ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

The fantastical arch shapes of sandstone formations have long been thought to be sculpted by wind and rain. But a team of researchers has now found that the shapes are inherent to the rock itself.

AlUla’s oasis has inspired artists for millennia: Recently, Desert X AlUla has brought a fresh artistic resurgence to this striking desert landscape. In the searing heat of the desert, a sculptured ...

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