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This list contains notable petroglyphs, or rock engravings, around the world.

Africa

Algeria Tassili n'Ajjer

Cameroon Bidzar

Central African Republic Bambari, Lengo and Bangassou in the south; Bwale in the west Toulou Djebel Mela Koumbala

Chad Niola Doa

Republic of the Congo The Niari Valley, 250 km south west of Brazzaville

Egypt 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 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.

Ethiopia Tiya

Gabon Ogooue River Valley Epona Elarmekora Kongo Boumba Lindili Kaya Kaya

Libya Akakus Jebel Uweinat

Morocco The Draa River valley. Taouz. Akka Smara

Namibia Twyfelfontein

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

Nigeria Igbara Oke Petroglyphs Birnin kudu rock site

South Africa Driekops Eiland near Kimberley ǀXam and ǂKhomani heartland in the Karoo, Northern Cape Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre near Kimberley, Northern Cape Keiskie near Calvinia, Northern Cape Tunisia

Ouesslat Mountain, Ain Kanfous and Zamla Tameghza The Tataouine Region, in particular Ghomrassen and Smar

Zambia Nyambwezi Falls in the north-west province

Asia

Armenia

Ughtasar Paytasar Urtsadzor Aragats Gegham mountains Vardenis ridge See also Armenian Eternity sign

Azerbaijan

Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve Gemigaya Kalbajar Northern Absheron

China

Helan Mountains in Yinchuan Hua'an Engravings Kangjia shimenzi in Xinjiang Lianyungan Rock Engravings Petroglyphs in Zhuhai Yin Mountains in Inner Mongolia Chifeng Petroglyphs in Inner Mongolia

Georgia Trialeti petroglyphs

Hong Kong

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

India

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. 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. Some carving depicts, what appears to be Pisces constellation.

Perumukkal, Tindivanam District, Tamil Nadu, India. Unakoti near Kailashahar in North Tripura District, Tripura, India. Usgalimal rock engravings, Kushavati river banks, in Goa Ladakhi rock art in Ladakh, NW Indian Himalaya. Ratnagiri Maharashtra Petroglyphs, An 8-foot (2.4 m)-long petroglyph in Devache Gothane village in Rajapur district, Maharashtra 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

Iran

During recent years a large number of rock carvings has been identified in different parts of Iran. The vast majority depict the ibex. 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. 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.

Israel Kibbutz Ginosar Har Karkom Negev

Japan

Awashima shrine (Kitakyūshū city) Fugoppe Cave, Hokkaido Hikoshima (Shimonoseki city) Miyajima Temiya cave (Otaru city)

Jordan Wadi Rum Wadi Faynan

Kazakhstan

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

Kyrgyzstan

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

Laos Plain of Jars

South Korea Bangudae Petroglyphs

Macau Coloane

Malaysia Lumuyu Petroglyphs

Mongolia Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai, UNESCO World Heritage site, 2011 Petroglyphs found in the area of Bayan-Ovoo.

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

Philippines

Angono Petroglyphs of Rizal, Philippines

Saudi Arabia

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This list contains notable petroglyphs, or rock engravings, around the world. Africa Algeria Tassili n'Ajjer Cameroon Bidzar Central African Republic Bambari, Lengo and Bangassou in the south; Bwale in the west Toulou Djebel Mela Koumbala Chad Niola Doa Republic of the Congo The Niari Valley, 250 k…

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