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Ilkley's ancient rocks are star maps

An amateur scientist believes he has finally found proof that ancient rock carvings on Rombalds Moor are "Stone Age star maps".
Gordon Holmes believes he has uncovered five of the finest examples of primitive maps of the night sky - all carved into stones on the moor.
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Wadi Abu Dom Rock carvings
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Mysterious Ancient Rock Carvings Found Near Nile River, Wadi Abu Dom

An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists can't explain.
The team discovered 15 new rock art sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom, some 29 kilometres from the Nile River. It's an arid valley that flows with water only during rainy periods. Many of the drawings were carved into the rock faces - no paint was used - of small stream beds known as "khors" that flow into the valley.
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Group learns special techniques for finding and recording 300 stones with carvings

Investigators made their first expedition on to a wild and windy Rombalds Moor in a project to capture the images from hundreds of ancient carved stones.
The 30-plus CSI - or Carved Stone Investigation - volunteers began their first practical day of training on Saturday for a survey aiming to record prehistoric rock carvings for posterity.



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Prehistoric art 3,000 years old was discovered by chance in woodland by a council worker while carrying out routine maintenance work.
John Gilpin, a woodlands officer in the Parks and Countryside department, stumbled upon the find in Ecclesall Woods.
He discovered a boulder with a series of markings, lines and cuts - which, after being examined by experts, has been declared a significant archaeological find.
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Stone enclosure
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A fire which swept across a large area of North Yorkshire moorland has revealed a mysterious monument which could date back to Neolithic times.
This aerial picture from English Heritage shows a stone enclosure and a number of stone cairns on a 62-acre site near the village of Goathland.
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A local archaeologist dismissed Dirk Morgan's find as just an odd sandstone boulder probably shaped by nature.
But, Eric Law, a geologist and associate professor at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, said he's pretty confident someone carved the rock that resembles the head of a turtle.

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A local archaeology curator said a turtle-head shaped boulder found near Oregonia is not a sculpture, as claimed by its finder.
Dirk Morgan, owner of Morgans Canoe and Outdoor Centre, said he believes his find is an effigy of a turtle that could date back to the Hopewell Indians who lived in the area more than 1,000 years ago.
Bob Genheimer of the Cincinnati Museum Centre viewed the 200-pound boulder at Morgans home on April 21 and said he found no evidence of shaping or manufacturing.

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Dirk Morgan has always fancied himself a modern day Indiana Jones.
Now, Morgan thinks he has found something significant -- a sandstone boulder that appears to be carved into the shape of a turtle's head, complete with gaping mouth, a tapered beak and eyes on both sides.
He found the object while digging up a rock to place in his wifes garden. He estimates it weighs about 200 pounds.

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In this corner of Colorado, so far south and east you can see cows grazing in Oklahoma, the smooth swells of the prairie suddenly break on the rocks of unexpected canyon lands.
The landscape is a Georgia O'Keeffe painting: arid sandstone pastels backed up against distant blue mesas, immense, empty sky, no people anywhere.
It is here, in a narrow sandstone crevice called Crack Cave that one of the region's oldest, most mysterious messages is pecked. On the cave wall, 15 feet from the mouth, a small lump of stone juts into the passage. Dozens of hand-pecked lines cover the lump at odd angles.
No one knows who made the marks, or when, or why. Theories abound.

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More than 100 prehistoric carvings have been discovered on rocks and boulders across the North of England.
The Neolithic art created 5,000 years ago bears a series of mysterious shapes, including concentric circles, interlocking rings and hollowed cups.
The finds, around Northumberland and Durham, are particularly exciting as many of the nation's prehistoric carvings have been lost to natural erosion and human activities such as quarrying and field clearance.

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