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Some 4,000 to 8,500 years after a Native American artist made an etching in a 30-million-year-old volcanic boulder at what is now Texas' Big Bend National Park, visitors decided...

The incident in December is the latest incident of vandalism to ancient Native artifacts

When tourists carve graffiti over Native rock art, archeologists do everything they can to remove it. But some of the damage is permanent.

Vandals have etched a racist phrase, “white power”, as well as other graffiti, over millennia-old Native American petroglyphs in Utah. The Bureau of Land Management Utah has announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Rock art sites on federal lands are nationally protected areas and it is strongly prohibited to touch the art as even oil from fingertips can irreparably damage the fragile rock surface. - The four-panel collection of petroglyphs known as the “Birthing Rock” in Moab, Utah was etched into the red sandstone boulder�...

Vandals mar ancient petroglyphs in north Georgia mountains JEFF MARTIN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Federal authorities are searching for vandals who damaged ancient petroglyphs in the north Georgia mountains — sacred rock carvings that date back thousands of years. Archaeologist Johannes Loubser discovered the vandalism on March 26 and reported it to the U.S. Forest Service, he said Thursday. The vandalism includes scars made by someone using rocks and knives, but also blue, red and yellow paint, he said. “I just thought ‘Oh no, this can't be true,' an...