rock inscriptions
Messages in stone
Rock inscriptions are words, symbols, or images carved, painted, or otherwise marked on stone surfaces.
The term covers ancient petroglyphs, religious texts cut into cliff faces, and commemorative messages on boulders.
Rock inscriptions serve as some of humanity's oldest surviving written records: Archaeologists discovered rock inscriptions dating back three thousand years.
- petroglyphsCarvings on natural stone
- hieroglyphsAncient Egyptian picture-writing
- ancient writingInscriptions from antiquity
- epigraphyStudy of ancient inscriptions
- carved in stoneFixed beyond alteration
stone carving · chiseling · archaeology · archaeological site · stelae · incising · geometric patterns · cuneiform · engraving · runes · sacred symbols · abrasion · pictographs · hammerstone · etching · flint tools · relief carvings · ancient graffiti
rock inscriptionsdigital records
Information stored as data
electronic documents · cloud storage · digital archives · e-books · binary data
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