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Mountainside gallery where all civilisations added their own art from Bronze Age to medieval times
By Sergey Zubchuk and Olga Gertcy
k16 October 2017
On the border between Russia and Mongolia, we reveal awe-inspiring Kara-Turug petroglyphs, and they contain a BIG secret about ancient Siberia.
There are 500 or so exhibits and the artwork here spanning some 4,000 years until the end of the first millennium AD.
Every major civilisation added their own distinct imprint to the collection of rock art at Dus-Dag mountain in modern-day Tuva Republic, literally from the age of the spear until well into medieval times.
Archeologist Dr Marina Kilunovskaya said: 'This way they were marking their presence, showing that they were now the owners here.'
To their credit, successive civilisations coming here did not destroy the jottings of those who went before them.
More:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/mountainside-gallery-where-all-civilisations-added-their-own-art-from-bronze-age-to-medieval-times/