Natural and symbolic motifs painted in red on weathered orange rock face

Rock paintings in red ocher of a conjoined sun and moon, two sunbursts, a tree, and two swastikas

Location
Chukargyam, Rutok, Tibet

Date
Iron Age (ca. 700–100 BCE) or Protohistoric period (ca. 100–600 CE)

Material
rock

Photo Credit
photograph by J. V. Bellezza

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