Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where dozens of ancient boab trees are engraved with Aboriginal designs. These tree carvings — ...

MS Caledonian Sky.Credit: APT Touring "So the boab's existence in Australia remains a great mystery," says Restrepro over the hum of the engine, as she steers us away. I watch the enigmatic tree ...

The boab trees of the remote Tanami desert are carved with centuries of Indigenous history – and they’re under threat. Australia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth.

We are in a race against time to document and preserve this invaluable art. The Australian boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) is an iconic tree naturally found only in a restricted area of ...

Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia's boab trees.

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.

Perhaps dating back to before the Continental Shift, the boab is a tree that grows both in Africa and in parts of Australia.

They would have settled here and introduced the boab tree and words to other Aboriginal groups. So, if you ever visit the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, take some time to look at the ...

Australia’s boab trees (Adansonia gregorii) are related to Africa’s baobabs that can live for 2,000 years. Boabs were a major source of food and shelter for the Indigenous people of the Tanami ...

We are in a race against time to document and preserve this invaluable art. The Australian boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) is an iconic tree naturally found only in a restricted area of ...

Carvings in the boab trees tell the stories of the King Brown Snake (or Lingka) Dreaming in a remote area of the Tanami desert, which straddles the border of Western Australia and the Northern ...