Rock Art at the Alta museum

Alta Museum, Norway

The rock art in Alta is one of the eight Norwegian entries on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The world heritage in Alta consists of five areas of both rock carvings and rock paintings, the oldest of which are more than 7000 years old. The rock art came to be over a period of five thousand years. In this time Alta was an important meeting point for people from both coastal and inland areas.

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