An atlas of Earth’s mysterious places — megaliths, pyramids, lost and sunken cities — with the evidence shown plainly: what is verified, what is contested, and what is still unknown.

Data CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photos per credit

Explore

Atlas map
All places
Categories
Countries
Contested & pseudo

Community

Theories & discussion
Lists
News & resources
Submit a resource

Mysteria

About the atlas
Data & verification
Licenses & credits
Create an account

The house

Thaumatica
Libra Esoterica
UAP Nexus
Aletheca
Lonely Island

Search Mysteria

Search places, or jump to a section

Partially excavated rock shelters in India · Mysteria

The catalogue

Partially excavated rock shelters in India

4 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

Filters

Clear all

Verification

Pick several

Verified5 Widely accepted5 Contested0 Hypothetical0 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology0

4 places

Rock shelters 🇮🇳 India Partially excavated Clear all

≈Accepted

🇮🇳 India · Rock art

Lakhudiyar Rock Shelters (Barechhina)

Mesolithic to Early Historic (5000 BCE – 500 CE) · Mesolithic Himalayan foragers, Early Historic Katyuri related

Almora Himalayan ceiling 25-m with linked dance figures Mesolithic-Historic.

✓Verified

🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter

Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33

Mesolithic (7000 BCE) · Mesolithic

Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33 in Madhya Pradesh, Bhimbetka outlier, India is a Mesolithic (7000 BCE) rock shelter attributed to Mesolithic culture.

✓Verified

🇮🇳 India · Rock art

Kunjhun Rock Art — Vindhya

Mesolithic (8000 BCE) · Vindhya Mesolithic

Kunjhun Rock Art — Vindhya in Uttar Pradesh, Vindhya range, India is a Mesolithic (8000 BCE) rock art attributed to Vindhya Mesolithic culture.

✓Verified

🇮🇳 India · Rock art

Adamgarh Rock Shelters

Mesolithic to Early Historic (8000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Mesolithic Narmada Hunter-Gatherers, Chalcolithic Malwa, Historic tribal (Gond)

Narmada quartzite 30 shelters with buffalo-hunt microlith art 8 ka–historic.