🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Asyut Western Cliff Tombs (Lycopolis Necropolis)
First Intermediate to Middle Kingdom (2181–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (13th Upper nome; nomarchs)
First Intermediate nomarch tombs with Djefaihapi mortuary contract.
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Paintings and engravings from the deepest human past.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Rock art
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
News Paper Rock Panel East in Angkor, Cambodia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
First Intermediate to Middle Kingdom (2181–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (13th Upper nome; nomarchs)
First Intermediate nomarch tombs with Djefaihapi mortuary contract.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Microlithic to 2,000 BCE (c.6000–2000 BCE painting) · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
Brandberg (Daureb) Massif – Namibia's granite massif with 1,000+ shelters; White Lady shelter (Maack Shelter) polychrome painting (c.2000 BCE) of white lady with bow, oryx, tasselled figures.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Hueco (6000 BCE) → Jornada Mogollon (1200 CE) → Tigua/Mescalero pictographs · Jornada Mogollon / Apache Comanche
El Paso huecos excavated by Jackson 1920s, 3000 pictographs, Comanche Cave masks 1000 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Ubirr Rainbow Serpent Gallery South in Luxor, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Western Desert, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Late Stone Age 3000 BCE–19th c. CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Main Caves – 500+ San (Bushman) paintings in sandstone Game Pass Shelter: 35,000+ individual images (polychrome eland, therianthropes, Rosetta Panel).
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Paleolithic to Western Xia (10,000 BCE–1000 CE) · North Chinese / Nomadic (Xiongnu, Xianbei, Tangut)
Helan (Helanshan) Rock Art – 20,000+ petroglyphs on Helan Mountain range (Ningxia-Inner Mongolia) from Paleolithic to Western Xia (10 ka BCE–1200 CE).
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Nok Furnace Complex in Ténéré, Niger is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Ancestral Puebloan (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Southern Paiute / Ancestral Puebloan
Parashant Nampaweap recorded by Peel 1970s, Puebloan pilgrimage trail markers to Grand Canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Barrier Canyon Style (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Barrier Canyon archaic (pre-Fremont)
Horseshoe Great Gallery recorded by Schaafsma 1970s, Archaic Barrier Style before Anasazi.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian
Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (500–1300 CE) · Fremont (Uinta Fremont)
Utah's Nine Mile excavated by Manning 1910s, Fremont owl-eyes figures and hunt scenes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early Holocene (8000–5000 BCE) hunter art · Gilf Holocene hunter
Wadi Hamra cave painted 7000 BCE hunters, Zerzura legend Almásy arch.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rock art
Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)
10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Rock art
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic rock-art at Orkney.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Bronze Age · Magdalenian / Bronze Age
Karstic cave network in Navarre Pyrenees foothills with Upper Palaeolithic engravings and Holocene deposits, including Magdalenian mobiliary art and early Bronze Age burials.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Classical · Classical
Classical rock-art at Huanuco.
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) · Gravettian / Noailles
Rock shelter at Brassempouy, Landes, famous for Gravettian occupation (29,000–22,000 BP) yielding the Dame de Brassempouy ivory Venus (23,000 BP) and eight other ivory figurines, with rich Gravettian…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst or Leang-Leang Caves (from the Makassarese word for "many caves") are located in Maros Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, roughly one hour north of Makassar city.
🇵🇭 Philippines · Rock art
The Angono - Binangonan Petroglyphs are petroglyphs carved into a rock wall between the boundaries of Angono and Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines.
