More than 1,000 rock carvings abound on Kanozero Island in Northern Russia.
Featured objects are usually displayed in museums. But sometimes there are relics that can't be put on exhibition - as is the case with one that is hidden deep in the Russian forests. Knowing that there were rock carvings on some islands in Lake Kanozero, and Jan Magne Gjerde, project manager at the Tromsų University Museum, went out there to document them as part of his doctoral work. When he and his colleagues were done, the number of known petroglyphs had risen from 200 to over 1,000. Read more