Petroglyphs

The Ayo Rock Formations stand out on the island of Aruba as a unique arrangement of giant boulders with interesting crawl spaces to explore.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

These Neolithic burial mounds and a still-intact passage tomb may have solar calendar significance on the spring and autumn equinoxes.

A set of ancient rock engravings that date back to the Neolithic period.

Engravings of penises and vaginas on a boulder in the Philippines dates local tribal history back to the Bronze Age.

Aboriginal artists carved these unique figures into sandstone.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

This Native American petroglyph marks the location of an important, Creek trail.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

One of the only two archaeological sites in Japan to feature petroglyphs, which some believe to be a long-lost writing system of the gods.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.