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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.
Newspaper Rock carved rock historical monument with a large collection of petroglyphs Utah USA
Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hail Province, Jubbah. Ancient petroglyph of ostriches and other animals at the Jubbah rock art site at Ob Sinman Mountain.
Ancient bushmen rock engravings (petroglyphs) at Twyfelfontain in Damaraland, Namibia
Jabal Umm Sanman ancient rock art showing camels near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Albuquerque, New Mexico,  USA, Oct 1, 2021: designs and symbols carved on Volcanic Rocks in Petroglyph National Monument.
One of the rocks in Petroglyph National monument, NM
Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument
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.
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.
Petroglyphs in Utah
Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia
A Crack Running Through The Petroglyphs On Newspaper Rock in Utah
Standing next to a large sandstone boulder, a woman inspects a variety of snake petroglyphs in Utah’s San Rafael Swell.
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument in Utah, USA. One of largest known collections of petroglyphs.
Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico
Rock inscriptions presumably in ancient Sanskrit. unesco heritage site.
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
Jordan - May 1, 2024: 2000 years old Anfashieh inscriptions, portraying the rich history associated with the bedouin nomads in the Khazali canyon of the Wadi Rum desert, Jordan
Petroglyphs in the Nevada desert.
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,
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.
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Ancient Vernal style petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.
A closeup of an ancient petroglyph at Boca Negra Canyon in New Mexico
Rock carvings depicting characters and figures dating back to the talmudic period. Photographed in the desert close to Taima and Tabuck in Saudi Arabia
rock figure located in Mazouco belonging to the Foz Coa itinerary
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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