Night sky culture Specific stars and constellations are used by some Aboriginal language groups to help them remember key waypoints along a route, detailed oral histories reveal. The research, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A black dome has appeared outside Plymouth’s recently revamped cultural complex, The Box. Visitors can step ...

Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock. It’s ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and ...

IF YOU THINK Aboriginal art is just a haphazard collection of dots and lines, think - or better still, look - again. A vital part of Australian culture, the paintings recount the Aborigines' animistic ...

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a peerless exhibition of Aboriginal art, thrilling in its breadth and depth. Seven years in the planning, now showing at the National Museum of Australia, it ...