🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Dabous Giraffe Petroglyphs
Early Holocene Bubalus Period (8000–5000 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan hunter-pastoralists (Bubalus tradition)
Aïr life-size 5.8-m giraffes with leashes 8000–5000 BCE, largest Saharan engravings.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Qurn (Theban Peak)
Middle to Late New Kingdom and beyond (2100–1000 BCE cult) · Ancient Egyptian
420-m natural pyramid capping Thebes, shaping Valley of Kings orientation as Ta Dehent.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Fajada Butte
Pueblo II–III Bonito 1000–1150 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Chacoan Sun Dagger butte: three slabs create dagger beam on spirals marking solstices and lunar standstill.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Sego Canyon Rock Art Galleries
Archaic to Historic (4000 BCE – 19th c.) · Archaic Desert (BCS), Fremont, Numic Ute
Book Cliffs triple-gallery BCS ghosts, Fremont and Ute horses in one wash.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst
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
Angono Petroglyphs
The Angono - Binangonan Petroglyphs are petroglyphs carved into a rock wall between the boundaries of Angono and Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Rock art
Jebel Jassassiyeh
Jebel Jassassiyeh (Arabic: جبل الجساسية, romanized: Jabal al Jasāsīyah) is an area with early petroglyphs, residential ruins and pottery remnants (from the 15th century) in northeast Qatar.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Intiyuq K'uchu
Intiyuq K'uchu (or Pintasqa Wayq'u) is an archaeological site in Peru with rock paintings. It is located in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Lamay District.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Chawaytiri
Chawaytiri (Hispanicized Chahuaytire, Chahuaytiri) is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Temple complex
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Yoruba Classic to Modern (400 BP–present) · Yoruba (Ife–Oyo)
Osun-Osogbo is the 75 ha sacred primary high forest along Osun River (buffer 47 ha) Yoruba goddess Osun's abode, UNESCO 2005 criteria ii, iii, vi.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jeffers Petroglyphs
Archaic to Protohistoric (7000 BP–1700 CE) · Paleoindian through Dakota
Midwest's largest petroglyph site: 4000 carvings 7000 BP–1700 CE on quartzite outcrop tracing 7000 years.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
El Cerro Tome Site
The El Cerro Tome Site is a site of petroglyphs and other prehistoric artifacts near Tome, New Mexico which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art
Amazmaz
Amazmaz is an isolated elevation with steep slopes in the western part of the Adrar plateau in Mauritania, 400 km northeast of the capital Nouakchott.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Rock art
Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Azerbaijani: Qobustan dövlət tarixi-bədii qoruğu) is a protected historic and natural site in Azerbaijan, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southwest…
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Panaramitee Rock Engravings
Mid Holocene to Contact (3000 BCE – 1850 CE) · Aboriginal Australian (Wilyakali, surrounding Western Desert groups)
South Australian type site of Panaramitee track-circle style 3000 BCE–contact.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs
Basketmaker to Historic Ute (500 BCE – 1850 CE) · Basketmaker-Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo), Fremont, Navajo, Ute
Utah Wingate cliff 650 figures 500 BCE–19th c. palimpsest from Basketmaker to Ute.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Boca de Potrerillos
Boca de Potrerillos is an archeological site located some 14 km from the municipal head of Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Inkapintay
Inkapintay (Quechua Inka Inca, pintay to paint / painting (a borrowing from Spanish pintar to paint), "Inka painting") or Inkapintayuq (-yuq a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with an Inka…
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Kanozero Petroglyphs
The Kanozero Petroglyphs (Russian: Канозерские петроглифы, romanized: Kanozerskiye petroglify) are a set of rock drawings discovered in 1997 on an island in Lake Kanozero in the southwestern part of…
Curaçao · Rock art
Hato Caves
Hato Caves are show caves, publicly accessible since 1991 and a popular tourist attraction on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Killa Mach'ay
Killa Mach'ay (Quechua killa moon, mach'ay cave, "moon cave", also spelled Killa Machay, Killamachay, Quillamachay) is an archaeological site with rock paintings and petroglyphs in Peru.
Nicaragua · Rock art
Ometepe
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua (Cocibolca), formed by the Concepción and Maderas volcanoes, with rainforests and growing ecotourism
