Rock carvings at Alta - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rock carvings at Alta - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Rock art of Alta (Helleristningene i Alta) are located in and around the municipality of Alta in the county of Troms og Finnmark in northern Norway. Since the first carvings were discovered in 1973, more than 6,000 carvings have been found on several sites around Alta. The largest locality, at Jiepmaluokta about from Alta, contains thousands of individual carvings and has been turned into an open-air museum. The site, along with the sites Storsteinen, Kåfjord, Amtmannsnes, and Transfarelv, was placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites on 3 December 1985. It is Norway's only prehistoric World Heritage Site.Rock Art of Alta (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) Read more on Wikipedia
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