Rockart, petroglyphs (also called rock engravings) are pictogram images created by engraving the rock surface. The Negev desert is packed with rockart , especially in Mount Karkom which was a in holy place and pilgrimage site. Rock art constitutes a major testimony of early man's thoughts and beliefs of himself and his world. They were holy messages ,a treasures of the past ,in the form of recorded: thoughts, beliefs, myths and the ancients life’s worries. The earliest script is just over 5,000 years old but rock art  provides a much earlier record ,thousands years , and encoding them is an exciting journey into the deep past. Mount Karkom is a unique site it contains many archeological artifacts including 40,000 rockart. All of these make Mount Karkom a pre-historic cultural laboratory; a live museum of the pre-history of Israel. Fifteen years ago a theory was raised that it is also the biblical Mount Sinai and indeed the possibility looks promising. hide...