Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum

Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum

The Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum is an open-air museum located some 50 km north-west of Kemerovo on the right bank of the Tom River in Western Siberia, Russia. It is famous for its 280 petroglyphs dating from 4000–1000 BC. The exhibition also includes reconstructions of ancient dwellings as well as some later cultural artefacts pertaining to the Shors people.

External links

* [http://www.gukmztp.ru/ Official website] Ru icon


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  • Petroglyph — Mesak Settafet region of Libya.] Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as carving , engraving , or other descriptions of …   Wikipedia

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