List of petroglyph sites

• Tassili n'Ajjer

• Bidzar

• Bambari, Lengo and Bangassou in the south; Bwale in the west
• Toulou
• Djebel Mela
• Koumbala

• Niola Doa

• The Niari Valley, 250 km south west of Brazzaville

• Qurta, on the east bank of the Nile River in the upper Nile valley, has Nubian Sandstone formations featuring the first and earliest known examples of petroglyphs in the region of North Africa, dating back to 19–15,000 years BP^[1][2]
• Wadi Hammamat in Qift, many carvings and inscriptions dating from before the earliest Egyptian Dynasties to the modern era, including the only painted petroglyph known from the Eastern Desert and drawings of Egyptian reed boats dated to 4000 BCE
• Inscription Rock in South Sinai, is a large rock with carvings and writings ranging from Nabatean to Latin, Ancient Greek and Crusader eras located a few miles from the Ain Hudra Oasis. A second rock sites approximately 1 km from the main rock near the Nabatean tombs of Nawamis with carvings of animals including Camels, Gazelles and others. The original archaeologists who investigated these in the 1800s have also left their names carved on this rock.
• Giraffe petroglyphs found in the region of Gebel el-Silsila. The rock faces have been used for extensive quarrying of materials for temple building especially during the period specified as the New Kingdom. The Giraffe depictions are located near a stela of the king Amenhotep IV. The images are not dated, but they are probably dated from the Predynastic periods.

• Tiya

• Ogooue River Valley
• Epona
• Elarmekora
• Kongo Boumba
• Lindili
• Kaya Kaya

• Akakus
• Jebel Uweinat

• The Draa River valley.
• Taouz.^[3]
• Akka
• Smara

• Twyfelfontein

• Life-size giraffe carvings on Dabous Rock, Aïr Mountains

• Igbara Oke Petroglyphs^[4]
• Birnin kudu rock site^[5]

• Driekops Eiland near Kimberley^[6]
• ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland in the Karoo, Northern Cape
• Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre near Kimberley, Northern Cape
• Keiskie near Calvinia, Northern Cape

Tunisia^[7]

• Ouesslat Mountain, Ain Kanfous^[8] and Zamla^[9]
• Tameghza^[10]
• The Tataouine Region, in particular Ghomrassen^[11] and Smar^[12]

• Nyambwezi Falls in the north-west province

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• Ughtasar
• Paytasar
• Urtsadzor
• Aragats^[13]
• Gegham mountains
• Vardenis ridge
• See also Armenian Eternity sign

• Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
• Gemigaya
• Kalbajar
• Northern Absheron

• Helan Mountains in Yinchuan^[14]
• Hua'an Engravings
• Kangjia shimenzi in Xinjiang^[14]
• Lianyungan Rock Engravings
• Petroglyphs in Zhuhai
• Yin Mountains in Inner Mongolia^[14]
• Chifeng Petroglyphs in Inner Mongolia

• Trialeti petroglyphs

Eight sites in Hong Kong:

• Tung Lung Island
• Kau Sai Chau
• Po Toi Island
• Cheung Chau
• Shek Pik on Lantau Island
• Wong Chuk Hang and Big Wave Bay on Hong Kong Island
• Lung Ha Wan in Sai Kung

• Bhimbetka rock shelters, Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh, India.
• Yogimatha rock painting , Nuapada District, Odisha, India.
• Kupgal petroglyphs on Dolerite Dyke, near Bellary, Karnataka, India.
• Kudopi, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India.
• Konkan Petroglyphs, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.
• Hiwale, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India.
• Barsu, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India.
• Devihasol, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India
• Edakkal Caves, Wayanad District, Kerala, India.
• Kollur, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu 35 km from Villupuram in Tamil Nadu. A large dolmen with four petroglyphs that portray men with trident and a wheel with spokes has been found. The discovery was made by K.T. Gandhirajan. This is the second instance when a dolmen with petrographs has been found in Tamil Nadu, India.^[15] In October 2018, petroglyphs were discovered in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur areas in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra. Those rock carvings which might date back to 10,000 BC, depict animals like hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses which are not found in that region of India.^[16] Some carving depicts, what appears to be Pisces constellation.^[17]

• Perumukkal, Tindivanam District, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Unakoti near Kailashahar in North Tripura District, Tripura, India.
• Usgalimal rock engravings, Kushavati river banks, in Goa^[18]
• Ladakhi rock art in Ladakh, NW Indian Himalaya.^[19]
• Ratnagiri Maharashtra Petroglyphs, An 8-foot (2.4 m)-long petroglyph in Devache Gothane village in Rajapur district, Maharashtra^[20]
• Kethaiyurumpu, Tamil Nadu. Situated 28 km north west of Dindigal, Tamil Nadu nearby Idaiyakottai and six km south west of Oddanchartam has revealed several petroglyphs mostly represent abstract symbols on two rocks, which looks like a temporary rock shelter were noticed adjacent to a Murugan temple which is in ruins on top of the Kothaiyurumbu hill

During recent years a large number of rock carvings has been identified in different parts of Iran. The vast majority depict the ibex.^[21][22] Rock drawings were found in December 2016 near Golpayegan, Iran, which may be the oldest drawings discovered, with one cluster possibly 40,000 years old. Accurate estimations were unavailable due to US sanctions.^[23]

The oldest pictographs in Iran are seen in Yafteh cave in Lorestan that date back 40,000 and the oldest petroglyph discovered belongs to Timareh dating back to 40,800 years ago.

Iran provides demonstrations of script formation from pictogram, ideogram, linear (2300 BC) or proto Elamite, geometric old Elamite script, Pahlevi script, Arabic script (906 years ago), Kufi script, and Farsi script back to at least 250 years ago. More than 50000 petroglyphs have been discovered, extended over all Iran's states.^[24][22][25]

• Kibbutz Ginosar
• Har Karkom
• Negev

• Awashima shrine (Kitakyūshū city)^[26]
• Fugoppe Cave, Hokkaido^[14]
• Hikoshima (Shimonoseki city)^[26]
• Miyajima^[26]
• Temiya cave (Otaru city)^[27]

• Wadi Rum
• Wadi Faynan

• Koksu River, in Almaty Province
• Chumysh River basin,
• Tamgaly Tas on the Ili River
• Tamgaly – a World Heritage Site nearly of Almaty

• Several sites in the Tien Shan mountains: Cholpon-Ata, the Talas valley, Saimaluu Tash, and on the rock outcrop called Suleiman's Throne in Osh in the Fergana valley

• Plain of Jars

• Bangudae Petroglyphs

• Coloane

• Lumuyu Petroglyphs

• Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai, UNESCO World Heritage site, 2011^[28][29]
• Petroglyphs found in the area of Bayan-Ovoo.^[30]

• Ancient Rock Carvings of Sindh
• Rock art and petroglyphs in Northern Areas,

• Angono Petroglyphs of Rizal, Philippines

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  Petroglyphs at Wadi Qarn.
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  Petroglyphs at Mada'in Salih.
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  Petroglyphs of musical instruments.
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  Petroglyphs of animals, Tabuk.
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  Hieroglyphic inscriptions, Tabuk.
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  Islamic inscriptions, Qasim.
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  Thamudic inscriptions.

• The Wanshan Rock Carvings Archeological Site near Maolin District, Kaohsiung, were discovered between 1978 and 2002.

• Pha Taem National Park

• Rock engravings in Sapa, Sa Pa, Lào Cai Province
• Rock engravings in Namdan, Xín Mần District, Hà Giang Province

• Eriosh Petroglyphs, island of Socotra

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  Carving "The Shoemaker", Brastad, Sweden
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  Petroglyph in Roque Bentayga, Gran Canaria (Canary Islands).
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  Petroglyph at Dalgarven Mill, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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  Bronze Age petroglyphs depicting weapons, Castriño de Conxo, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.
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  Labyrinth, Meis, Galicia.
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  Cup-and-ring mark, Louro, Muros, Galicia.
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  Deer and cup-and-ring motifs, Tourón, Ponte Caldelas, Galicia.
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  Petroglyphs in Zalavruga, Belomorsk, Karelia, Russia

• Boscawen-un, St Buryan
• Cup and ring marked rocks in:
  • Northumberland,
  • County Durham,
  • Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire,
  • Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire,
  • Creswell Crags, Nottingham

• Hauensuoli, Hanko, Finland

• Prehistoric rock engravings of the Fontainebleau Forest
• Vallée des Merveilles, Mercantour National Park, France

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  The sorcerer, Vallée des Merveilles, France
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  The tribe master, Vallée des Merveilles, France

• Newgrange
• Knowth
• Dowth
• Loughcrew
• Tara
• Clonfinlough Stone
• Boheh Stone

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica – World Heritage Site, Italy (biggest European site, over 350,000)
• Bagnolo stele, Valcamonica, Italy
• Grotta del Genovese, Sicily, Italy
• Grotta dell'Addaura, Sicily, Italy
• Rock Engravings in Grosio (in Valtellina), Italy

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  Grosio - Rupe Magna
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  Grosio - Rupe Magna
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  Grosio - Rupe Magna

• Knockmany

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  Leftmost of three central stones, Knockmany Chambered Tomb, Co. Tyrone
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  Central of three central stones, Knockmany Chambered Tomb, Co. Tyrone
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  A stone on the right of the passage, Knockmany Chambered Tomb, Co. Tyrone

• Sess Kilgreen

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  Sess Kilgreen Chambered Tomb, Co. Tyrone
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  Sess Kilgreen Chambered Tomb, Co. Tyrone

• Rock carvings at Alta, World Heritage Site (1985)
• Rock carvings in Central Norway
• Rock carvings at Møllerstufossen
• Rock carvings at Tennes

• Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley, Portugal

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  Various zoomorphic creatures, including in particular, a horse
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  Paleolithic rock engravings breaking the natural rock formation
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  Various zoomorphic creatures, including in particular, a Bull

• Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume, North Ayrshire
• Burghead Bull, Burghead
• Townhead, Galloway^[31]
• Ballochmyle cup and ring marks

• Petroglyphs in Louro, Monte Tetón, and Carnota, in Galicia^[32]

• White Sea petroglyphs, Republic of Karelia, Russia
• Petroglyph Park near Petrozavodsk–Lake Onega, Russia
• Tomskaya Pisanitsa
• Kanozero Petroglyphs
• Sikachi-Alyan, Khabarovsk Krai
• Kapova cave, Bashkortostan
• Sunduki Petroglyphs, Khakassia

• Kagizman, Kars
• Cunni Cave, Erzurum
• Esatli, Ordu
• Gevaruk Valley, Hakkâri
• Hakkari Trisin, Hakkâri
• Latmos / Beşparmak
• Güdül, Ankara

• Kamyana Mohyla, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
• Kurgan stelae

• Garn Turne, Pembrokeshire

• Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz
• Talampaya National Park, La Rioja
• Lihué Calel National Park, La Pampa

• Arikok National Park
• Quadiriki Caves
• Ayo Rock Formations

The oldest reliably dated rock art in the Americas is known as the "Horny Little Man." It is petroglyph depicting a stick figure with an oversized phallus and carved in Lapa do Santo, a cave in central-eastern Brazil and dates from 12,000 to 9,000 years ago.^[34]

• Serra da Capivara National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piauí
• Vale do Catimbau National Park, Pernambuco
• Ingá Stone, Paraíba
• Costao do Santinho, Santa Catarina
• Lagoa Santa (Holy Lake), Minas Gerais
• Ivolandia, Goiás

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  Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil
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  Ivolandia, Goiás, Brazil
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  Costao do Santinho, SC, Brazil

• Rincón las Chilcas, Combarbalá
• Easter Island petroglyphs

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  Numerous rocks boasting thousand-year-old carvings.^[35]
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  Llamas at La Silla^[36]
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  Petroglyphs at Orongo, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). A Makemake and two birdmen higher up

• El Abra, Cundinamarca
• Chiribiquete Natural National Park

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  El Abra archaeological site, Cundinamarca
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  Petroglyph in the Chiribiquete Natural National Park. (Possible equine)
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  Petroglyph in the Chiribiquete Natural National Park. Aboriginal.
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  Petroglyphs in the Chiribiquete Natural National Park.

• Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste

• Cueva de las Maravillas, San Pedro de Macorís
• Las Caritas, near Lake Enriquillo
• Los Tres Ojos, Santo Domingo

• Mt. Rich Petroglyphs

• Soldier Ghaut petroglyphs

• El Ceibo Petroglyphs,^[37] Ometepe, Rivas
• Ometepe Petroglyphs,^[37] Ometepe, Rivas

• Amambay Department

• Cumbe Mayo, Cajamarca
• Petroglyphs of Pusharo, Manú National Park, Madre de Dios region
• Petroglyphs of Quiaca, Puno Region
• Petroglyphs of Jinkiori, Cusco Region
• Toro Muerto, Arequipa Region

• Carib Petroglyphs, Wingfield Manor Estate, Saint Kitts

• Corantijn Basin

• Caurita

  

• Caicara del Orinoco, Bolívar
• Morrocoy National Park, Falcón
• Piedra Pintada Archeological Park within San Esteban National Park, Guaraca, Carabobo
• Sardinata Beach, Amazonas
• Taima Taima, Falcón