petroglyphs Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Beautiful, sacred, 4,000-year-old petroglyphs etched into a rock in Nevada have been defaced by two men who have now been sentenced for their
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Covering an area of 500,000 square miles, the Gobi Desert stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western Nevada, the petroglyphs date to at least 10,500 years ago and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It’s often assumed our ancestors created rock art for a reason, and that’s true in most cases. Some petroglyphs can have symbolic meaning,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Perched on a ridge near the small village of Leo in Jackson County, Ohio there are curious ancient petroglyphs that remain an unsolved
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The petroglyphs of Sego Canyon in Utah look like beings we see in science fiction movies, but these figures are not a modern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient petroglyphs in Iran represent a large part of the rock art (pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs) of this ancient
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many rock carvings have been found in Østfold county, the landscape with the most petroglyphs in Norway, but do these ancient images contain
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many different aspects of everyday life,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - More than 300 peculiar petroglyphs have been discovered scattered across the American Southwest. Known as water glyphs, most of them can be found
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Newspaper Rock is one of the finest and largest collections of Indian rock art to be found anywhere in the U.S. The first carvings
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lyman Lake petroglyphs can be found in Lyman Lake State Park, Arizona. Ancient rock art images are etched into boulders; they are numerous signs and
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan (officially Kyrgyz), is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south west
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Thousands of Thamudic petroglyphs are scattered all over the area of the Wadi Rum, just south of the famous rose-red city of Petra, in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new set of petroglyphs may offer evidence of a lost advanced civilization that existed thousands of years ago. The rock art was found
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some really impressive petroglyphs can be admired on the hills overlooking the desert communities Santa Clara and Ivins in the Santa Clara River Reserve,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - North America’s petroglyphs at the Winnemucca Lake are the oldest known. Cut into several boulders located within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, in western
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Scandinavia has the largest concentration of Bronze Age rock art in Europe. Approximately thirty thousand registered sites depict figurative art (human and animal
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - About 2,500 years ago, a unique culture of Fremont Indians began to develop in Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho, and Colorado. The
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin there are hundreds of remarkable ancient petroglyphs that were carved thousands of years ago by prehistoric people who lived in the region. In this
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The quest for the Biblical Mount Sinai is not over. It has previously been suggested that Mount Sinai, also known as Mount Horeb or
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As we continue to explore the ancient mysteries of North America, we come across a very puzzling discovery made in a cave in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Dighton Rock has been a subject of intense debate, curiosity and wonder for centuries. It’s a rock with a mysterious past we are
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cholpon-Ata, which means “Venus father,” is a resort town north of the world’s second largest high altitude lake, Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan. In the
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Peterborough petroglyphs in Ontario, Canada, are just as mysterious as controversial. Could these sacred images offer enough evidence ancient Celtic explorers visited
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - Examination of rock carvings in Arizona and New Mexico, has led scientists to the conclusion that "Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times, but
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - At first glance the Karelian rock carvings do not appear to be different from other carvings around the world. However, these petroglyphs are considered
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nevada is full of archaeological and anthropological discoveries - antiquities, no one is able to explain. One of these shocking discoveries gives us evidence
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