Zarautsoy Rock Paintings

The Zarautsoy gallery of rock art contains the oldest petroglyphs in Central Asia. The images describe primitive man’s everyday life, and bull and wild goat hunting.[1] The site is located in the Surkhandarya Region of Uzbekistan.

World Heritage Status

This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 18 January 2008, in the Cultural category.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.ut.uz/eng/kaleidoscope/reserved_paradise_of_surkhan.mgr
  2. ^ Zarautsoy Rock Paintings - UNESCO World Heritage Centre

References

Zarautsoy Rock Paintings - UNESCO World Heritage Centre Retrieved March 5, 2009.