Welcome to the Himalayan Rockart Database (HiRADa)

The analysis of rock art proposed here relies on two principles: a multiscale approach and a thesaurus.
For details about the methodology see About

Map of the rock art regions and sites

Map legend

Symbols
Region
○ Site
△ Zone

Colors

Notes
Selected item (site or zone) is bigger.

Sites and zones appear only at a given zoom level
The database gives you access to more than 26,000 images (photographs, tracings, annotated aerial images, field maps and sketches). With its unique identifier and citation each image can be reused under the following licence: CC BY-NC 4.0. Last but not least, it gives you access to 437 documents in PDF format, each corresponding to the reading and edition of a Tibetan rock inscription.