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Petroglyphs in Utah

Nearly a thousand years ago natives inhabited the lower elevations around the San Francisco Peaks of Arizona. In an area so dry it would seem impossible to live, they built pueblos, harvested rainwater, grew crops and raised families. Today the remnants of their villages dot the landscape along with their other artifacts. These petroglyphs were found on Magnetic Mesa in Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Petroglyphs written by the Hopi Indians at Parowan Gap, Utah. Symbols include clan signs and directional references. It is believed that the Fremont Indians wrote most of the petroglyphs.

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The image shows a beautiful spiral petroglyph on a boulder in Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona

Ancient bushmen rock engravings (petroglyphs) at Twyfelfontain in Damaraland, Namibia

Ancient bear claw petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Oct 1, 2021: designs and symbols carved on Volcanic Rocks in Petroglyph National Monument.

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,

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.

Ancient Native American Rock Art in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument

A Crack Running Through The Petroglyphs On Newspaper Rock in Utah

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One of the rocks in Petroglyph National monument, NM

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.

Petroglyph of shamans (medicine men) performing a trance dance. Wildebeest Kuil is a rocky hill not far from Kimberley/Barkley West in the Northern Cape Province. At this rocky hill more than 200 petroglyphs depicting representational and abstract images can be found. The creators were people from San and Khoe origin.

Keyhole Sink is a canyon known for its petroglyphs, which were created between 700 and 1100CE by the ancient Cohonina people. It is also known for the seasonal waterfall that flows into the canyon. Keyhole Sink is located in the Kaibab National Forest near Williams, Arizona, USA.

Rock inscriptions presumably in ancient Sanskrit. unesco heritage site.

Petroglyphs in the Nevada desert.

Ancient Petroglyphs on the wall of the Step House at Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez, Colorado. Petroglyphs are a communication form used by early Puebloan and anasazi people of the Four Corners region in southwestern Colorado.

The Three Rivers Petroglyphs are examples of prehistoric Jonada Mogollon rock art found on a basaltic ridge in New Mexico. There are over 21,000 petroglyphs in the area.

Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hail Province, Jubbah. Ancient petroglyph of ostriches and other animals at the Jubbah rock art site at Ob Sinman Mountain.

Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico

Petroglyphs at Newspaper Rock at UT 211 near Monticello, Utah, USA

Ancient Vernal style petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.

Ancient Hopi petroglyphs in Arizona in mesa ruins

Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia

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