After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.

chunky boab tree, its swollen, silvery trunk like an elephant's hind leg kicking out from beneath the earth. Boabs are fascinating things. They are the oldest living things in Australia ...

Inscriptions made on the bark of the tree by unknown hands, have proved to be more than a century old. Some specimens of the ...

where dozens of ancient boab trees are engraved with Aboriginal designs. These tree carvings — called dendroglyphs — could be hundreds or even thousands of years old, yet have received almost ...

Carvings in boab trees are as significant as rock art for ... said many of the carved trees are already several hundreds of years old and there is some urgency to produce high-quality recordings ...

Now, modern pastoral land clearance and bushfires are having a toll on the oldest of the boabs. There is some urgency to record this cultural and artistic archive before the ancient trees die. The ...

are some of the oldest and most incredible stories of human life and settlement of our ancient continent. It takes the shape of art in the bark of iconic and bountiful boab trees. Our newly ...