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Petroglyphs in the Valley of Fire Nevada
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.
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.
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.
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.
A large petroglyph panel tells ancient stories
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Petroglyphs just outside of Albuquerque in a National Monument
Newspaper Rock shows visitors a prolific amount of incised petrologyphs in a valley in the Petrified Forest National Park
Newspaper Rock carved rock historical monument with a large collection of petroglyphs Utah USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico,  USA, Oct 1, 2021: designs and symbols carved on Volcanic Rocks in Petroglyph National Monument.
Jabal Umm Sanman ancient rock art showing camels near Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Detail of the prehistoric rock paintings of the San People in Western Namibia, near Twyfelfontein.
Some talmudic rock carvings depicting a battle. The drawings are on a rock-face in Saudi Arabia
Newspaper Rock is a petroglyph panel etched in sandstone that records approximately 2,000 years of early human activities.  It is located near the Needles section of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, USA.
Old Indian inscriptions or petroglyphs in New Mexico
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.
Ancient petroglyph. Fremont Culture, Utah.
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.
Close up of Hopi Indians petroglyphs.
Rapa Nui. Petroglyphs on Easter Island, Chile, South America
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
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.
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.
Petroglyphs carved into a bolder by native Americans
The carvings are from the area of Taima, in Saudi Arabia, and date back to the early Arabic period.
Ancient Hopi petroglyphs in Arizona in mesa ruins
Old egyptian hieroglyphic carvings.
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