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Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Medina, Al-Ula. Petroglyphs at the Dadan visitor center, site of an ancient kingdom.
Newspaper Rock carved rock historical monument with a large collection of petroglyphs Utah USA
Eastern (upstream) Section (mostly geometric/abstract designs). Close-up of geometric (abstract) engraving. Driekopseiland (Island) is a rock engraving site located in the bed of the Riet River near Plooysburg, close to Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. At this site, nearly 4,000 exposed individual engravings are carved into glaciated basement rock. It is estimated that the petroglyphs were probably engraved in two distinct periods, the first about 2500 years ago, and the latter more or less 1000 years ago. The engravings at Driekopseiland are associated with cultural rituals and more specifically with puberty rites,
Petroglyphs in the Nevada desert.
Old egyptian hieroglyphic carvings.
A large petroglyph panel tells ancient stories
Orkhon inscriptions inside kultegin's memorial complex, mongolia. Those scripts are the oldest form of a Turkic language to be preserved. It is written by chinese alphabet during Bilge Khagan period of Gokturks Empire. It is most important epigraph for turkish history and modern Turkey.
Wadi Rum is a desert valley cut into the sandstone and granite cliffs in southern Jordan. Known also as the Valley of the Moon it has been inhabited since prehistoric times (witnessed by the petroglyph inscriptions) and by semi nomadic tribes since the Nabataeans but is best known for its association with T E Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who based himself here to encourage the Arab Revolt and to attack Turkish Forces of the Ottoman Empire during WW1. He was later immortalized by the film of the same name, made in 1962 by David Lean. Today the only inhabitants are Bedouin tribes and transient tourists.
Rapa Nui. Petroglyphs on Easter Island, Chile, South America
Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico
Ancient Hopi petroglyphs in Arizona in mesa ruins
Ground granite rock with two groups of concentric circles, Pena de Chaos petroglyphs decoration and ancestral art , Antas de Ulla, Lugo province, Galicia, Spain, set in early Bronze Age. Petroglyphs are of public free access.
ancient petroclyphs on a cave wall in Saudi Arabia
High on a cliff face, “intestine man” Barrier Canyon style pictographs remain in sandstone cliffs on public lands just outside Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah.
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Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia
Rapa Nui. Petroglyphs on Easter Island, Chile, South America
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Eastern (upstream) Section (mostly geometric/abstract designs). Close-up of geometric (abstract) engraving. Driekopseiland (Island) is a rock engraving site located in the bed of the Riet River near Plooysburg, close to Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. At this site, nearly 4,000 exposed individual engravings are carved into glaciated basement rock. It is estimated that the petroglyphs were probably engraved in two distinct periods, the first about 2500 years ago, and the latter more or less 1000 years ago. The engravings at Driekopseiland are associated with cultural rituals and more specifically with puberty rites,
Hand-drawn rocks (Petroglyphs) in Cholpon-Ata city, Kyrgyzstan.\nNorth of the centre is an extensive field of glacial boulders, many with pictures scratched or picked into their surfaces. Some of these petroglyphs date from the Bronze Age (about 1500 BC), but most are Saka-Usun (8th century BC to 1st century AD), Most are of long-horned ibex.
Newspaper Rock shows visitors a prolific amount of incised petrologyphs in a valley in the Petrified Forest National Park
Ancient China Stone Stele Inscribed in Chinese
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument in Utah, USA. One of largest known collections of petroglyphs.
Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument
Prehistoric Petroglyphs in Hunza valley, sacred rock of Hunza, rock carvings in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.
Jabal Umm Sanman ancient rock art showing camels near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Petrolgyphs in Canyonlands National Park
Nevada, USA.
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