The Vallee of Merveilles in Mercantour National Park

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiker over the hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi studies the hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of the Christ

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the glazed wall that borders the GR 52

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age and the Merveilles Mount (2720m)

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28/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, linear etchings of a man with a dagger left and a spearhead right, a studded engraving of a dagger at the bottom

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, molding of the engraved rock called the Headman the original of which was moved to the Merveilles Departmental Museum in Tende

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 at the Merveilles Lake below the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, hornlike figures observation in the company of archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), chamois next to the Rock of the Altar

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), hiker approaching the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields left and two daggers

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 and Mount Bego (2872m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Long Lake on the left and Fourcat lake on the right

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone called the Rock of the Altar engraved with hornlike figures, daggers, linear incisions and even stars which is unusual

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), hiker on the trail GR 52, the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age and the Paroi vitrifiée in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields left and two daggers

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), vallon de la Minière (Miniere valley) below the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), signpost of the access path and the Mount Bego in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), vallon de la Minière (Miniere valley) below the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), the only access trail for the allowed 4x4 of Pierre Berlière Mercantour Randonnee, and Mount Bego (2872m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), vallon de la Minière (Miniere valley) below the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) and Mount Bego (2872m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), vallon de la Minière (Miniere valley) below the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), a chamois jumps

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), vallon de la Minière (Miniere valley) below the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), the only access trail for the allowed 4x4 of Pierre Berlière Mercantour Randonnee

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the pastures below the Long Lake and the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the track that leads to the Merveilles refuge at the foot of Mont Bego (2872m) right, the Mont des Merveilles (2720m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, lower Long Lake, the Mont des Merveilles (2720m) left and Mount Bego (2872m) on the right

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Upper Long Lake, the Mont des Merveilles (2720m) in the center, Mount Bego (2872m) on the right and Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Merveilles mountain hut (FFCAM) and the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiking trail along Upper Lake Long and the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiking trail along Upper Lake Long and Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Nicoletta Bianchi, PhD in prehistory, author of a thesis on the archaeological and chronological context of the proto-historic engravings of Mount Bego region

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Hiker at the base of the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 and Mount Bego (2872m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Roche de l’Eclat engraved with hornlike figures, daggers and a large reticulated figure that could symbolize cultivated fields

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi studies the Roche de l’Eclat engraved with hornlike figures, daggers and a large checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi studies the Roche de l’Eclat engraved with hornlike figures, daggers and a large checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi studies the Roche de l’Eclat engraved with hornlike figures, daggers and a large checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, rock engraved with hornlike figures, daggers, linear incisions and a graffiti from Battista Maro who is probably the shepherd who has the most left his mark on the site at the beginning of last century

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the glazed wall, prehistoric and historic linear engravings covered with graffiti

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 under Mount Bego (2872m)

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of the Christ

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of the Christ

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 passing under the Mont des Merveilles (2720m)

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) on the trail GR 52, Nicoletta Bianchi, PhD in prehistory, author of a thesis on the archaeological and chronological context of the proto-historic engravings of Mount Bego region

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, molding of the engraved rock called the Headman the original of which was moved to the Merveilles Departmental Museum in Tende

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, molding of the engraved rock called the Headman the original of which was moved to the Merveilles Departmental Museum in Tende

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiker on the trail GR 52

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi on the trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 towards the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 at the Merveilles Lake below the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Merveilles Lake below the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 at the Merveilles Lake below the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiker on the trail GR 52 at the Merveilles Lake below the Baisse (pass) de Valmasque and the Mont Grand Capelet (2915 m) in the background left

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone called the Rock of the Altar engraved with hornlike figures probably representing an ox yoke on the left and a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields on the right

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), chamois next to the Rock of the Altar

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone called the Rock of the Altar, hornlike figures and daggers engravings

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone called the Rock of the Altar, hornlike figures engravings

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone called the Rock of the Altar, daggers engravings

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, schist flagstone at the foot of Mount Bego called the Rock of the Altar, it's engraved with hornlike figures, daggers, linear incisions and even stars which is unusual

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers on the trail GR 52 along the Merveilles Lake at the foot of Mount Bego

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), rock rich in iron, iron nodules in a schist stone

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), Graffiti of Claudio Salvagno di Tenda dated 1619, his name actually appears in the parish registers of the time

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, chamois on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Nicoletta Bianchi, PhD in prehistory, author of a thesis on the archaeological and chronological context of the proto-historic engravings of Mount Bego region

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, linear etchings included in hornlike figure of a man with his sword hanging

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, chamois on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi in front of the hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hiker over the hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike anthropomorphized figure engraved on the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hikers gathered around the so called rock of The Sorcerer on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones and Mount Bego in the background

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27/06/2016

• • BRcni0509.jpg
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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders), engraved ax probably from a historical epoch

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, hornlike figure probably representing an ox yoke and its ard plough

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, the greatest hornlike figure of the valley and another hornlike figure probably representing an ox yoke and its ard plough

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the chiappes yellow schist flagstones, hornlike figures observation in the company of archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, hornlike figures on the chiappes yellow schist flagstones

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), adult male chamois

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), adult male chamois

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), unfinished historic anthropomorphic engraving by the shepherd Maurizio Buin

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), rock engraved with hornlike figures, daggers, linear incisions and a graffiti from Battista Maro who is probably the shepherd who has the most left his mark on the site at the beginning of last century

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi overlooking the lac de l'Huile (Lake Oil)

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous and a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields at the top

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous and a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields at the top

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields left and two daggers

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields right, two daggers and fine linear incisions that the archaeologist Nicoletta Bianchi studies

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields left and two daggers

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) towards the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), chamois

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), hiker approaching the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous, a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields left and two daggers

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age and the Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass) in the background

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Fourcat lake

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Long lake

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Merveilles Mount (2720m) left and Mount Bego (2872m) on the right

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27/06/2016

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  • France, Alpes-Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, the Cime des Lacs (2510m) mountain

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27/06/2016