©Eric Glemot
©Eric Glemot
About 35 000 petroglyphs from the late Bronze Age are to be found all over the high valleys around Mont Bégo (2 872m) in the Mercantour National Park. Somehorned figures (bovines), weapons (daggers, halberds, axes), as well as anthropomorphic and geometric figures, can be seen at an altitude between 2 000 and 2 600 meters. The Merveilles and the Fontanalba valleys are the most famous sa they have the greatest concentration of petroglyphs.
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The Vallée des Merveilles, located in the Mercantour National Park in the heart of the Southern Alps, is an exceptional site with over 35,000 protohistoric rock engravings. Dating back to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, these works mingle with more recent engravings of a pastoral or military nature.
Discovered at the end of the 19th century, these engravings adorn glacier-polished rocks or boulders, bearing witness to human practices dating back thousands of years. They fall into two...
Discovered at the end of the 19th century, these engravings adorn glacier-polished rocks or boulders, bearing witness to human practices dating back thousands of years. They fall into two...
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