Archaeologists recently found more than 1,000 petroglyphs in the Urad Middle Banner of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to a report from the Xinhua News Agency on Saturday.
According to Liu Bin, director of the Urad Middle Banner's Cultural Relic Administration, the clusters of petroglyphs were found scattered over a two kilometer stretch of the Borihe Mountains in the eastern part of the Urad Middle Banner. Most of the petroglyphs, created by incising or abrading the surface of rocks, consist of pictures of animals while a few depict hunting scenes.
Liu said that the well preserved images are most likely cultural relics left by the Göktürks and Tangut, nomadic people who lived in northern part of China from the 7th century to 13th century .
The Yinshan Mountains, of which the Borihe Mountains are a part, are famous for the large number of ancient petroglyphs which can found in the region.
