Ancient indian petro glyph4/23/2024 ![]() ![]() The Egyptians called the scarab beetle Khepri (“He who is Coming into Being”) and worshiped it as the “dawn sun” on the eastern horizon. One large petroglyph depicts the Winged Scarab, a popular ancient Egyptian symbol associated with creation and rebirth. Let’s take a look at them and reflect on their significance and implications. ![]() When I looked at the images in the BBC News report and then in a video on the BBC News Marathi TV channel, 4 I was astonished to see sacred symbols found in the art and culture of many civilisations. 3 However, the petroglyphs also include complex geometric forms and intriguing human figures, whose meanings remain unclear. Tejas Garge told the BBC that they might have been created by hunter-gatherer tribes, on account of the numerous images that depict animals, birds and sea creatures. Many of the petroglyphs are not rudimentary scratches on the ground but large carvings executed with a lot of detail. The 52 sites where the petroglyphs lie have been identified over the past 6 years or so by a group of explorers led by Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe, who have a deep interest in the history, architecture, flora and fauna of the Konkan region.Ī large elephant petroglyph from Ratnagiri While some of the petroglyphs were known to the locals who treated them with reverence, most of them were hidden beneath layers of mud and soil deposited during the intervening millennia. 2 This puts the date of creation of these rock carved images at the very beginning of the post-glacial period, when humanity had just emerged from the cataclysms of the Younger Dryas epoch. Mesolithic tools have also been found at a petroglyph site in the village of Kasheli in Ratnagiri. In other archaeological sites, the petroglyph style of art is associated with tools from the Mesolithic period. “ Our first deduction from examining these petroglyphs is that they were created around 10,000 BC,” Director of the Maharashtra State Archaeology Department, Tejas Garge, told the BBC. 1: Ratnagiri, Maharashtra on the Konkan coastline ![]()
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