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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,
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.
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.
Close up of Hopi Indians petroglyphs.
Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia
A large petroglyph panel tells ancient stories
Large basalt boulder displays petroglyph drawing at the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Pueblo Indian art and culture is protected in the park.
Ancient Vernal style petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.
Panama, Nancitos, rock carvings representing abstract symbols, animals and people
Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico
Detail of the prehistoric rock paintings of the San People in Western Namibia, near Twyfelfontein.
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 Hopi petroglyphs in Arizona in mesa ruins
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Azerbaijan, Aerial view of Gobustan national park in Azerbaijan, Ancient petroglyph depicting human figures in Gobustan, Aerial view of popular destinations in Azerbaijan\n\nGobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Azerbaijani: Qobustan dövlət tarixi-bədii qoruğu) is located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the center of Baku. It was established in 1966, when the area was declared a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the prehistoric rock carvings, mud volcanoes and musical stones in the region.\n\nGobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve acquired national status in 2006, and Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007. As of 2011, the Petroglyph Museum functions in the reserve.
Ancient petroglyph at Three rivers petroglyph site in New Mexico, USA.
Jabal Umm Sanman ancient rock art showing camels near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Toro Muerto, Arequipa Region, Peru.  May 20th 2006.  Petroglyphs dated to the Wari culture on rocks in the Atacama Desert near the village of Corire, Peru.
Pu‘uloa Petroglyphs images in the harden lava.\n\ncupules or holes, motifs of circles, other geometric as well as cryptic designs, human representations known as anthropomorphs, canoe sails, turtles and others
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.
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.
Rock signs from the 3rd century before Christ in Navai.
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.
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.
Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument
Rapa Nui. Petroglyphs on Easter Island, Chile, South America
Newspaper Rock carved rock historical monument with a large collection of petroglyphs Utah USA
Close-up view to plate with cuneiform Sumerian text at the Ruins of Processional street of ancient Babylon, Hillah, Iraq
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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