Rock art

The ancient rock carvings and settlement in the northwestern province of Bolu's Kıbrıscık district have been officially designated as a "First-Degree Archeological Site."

The decision by the Ankara Regional Board for the Protection of Cultural Assets was made to ensure the preservation of these historically significant structures, which offer a unique insight into the region's past.

A group of researchers, led by Head of the Department of History at Ondokuz Mayıs University Okay Pekşen, discovered rock paintings of about 3,000 years old during their research in the Northern province of Rize's İkizdere district. The paintings are thought to belong to the Bozkurt tribes.

New paintings believed to be from the prehistoric era have come to light during the ongoing studies on Mount Latmos (Beşparmak), home to significant rock paintings from ancient times.

Peculiar pre-Hispanic petroglyphs & ancient astronaut theories

A Turkish expert, who has been working on petroglyphs for a decade, has alleged that his team has found some cave paintings belonging to ancient Turks in Mongolia's Gobi Desert that need geological dating.

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Azerbaijan is a bridge connecting the past and modern ages, a reserve official said in an interview.

"Same as Azerbaijan stands as an economic, cultural and historical bridge between Europe and Asia, Gobustan also stands as a bridge between ancient and modern times," said Fikrat Abdullayev, deputy director of the reserve.

Archaeologists and historians are lamenting the destruction of several 3,000-year-old rock carvings on the Pangaion Hills near Kavala in northern Greece and calling for measures to protect the remaining samples of this ancient art.

ATACAMA (CHILE) (AFP) - 

Open air rock paintings in the world's driest desert pay testament to the importance of the llama to millennia-old cultures that traversed the inhospitable terrain.

Conservationists working in Chile's Atacama Desert want UNESCO to recognize the Taira Valley drawings as a heritage site so they can develop sustainable tourism in the region.

For centuries the discovery of the Americas was credited to Christopher Columbus (even though we know for a fact that Vikings landed there much earlier) but new findings show that the Chinese may have been here much sooner than either.

After more than eight years and NASA has yet to answer what these 260(!) geoglyphs in Northern Kazakhstan really are. They were discovered in 2007 and the satellite images draw the attention of experts on the field, including NASA that tried to find their origin.