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Zone code: AFG-LAG-LAG-Zo01
Laghman
Laghmân
Longitude: 70.233
Latitude: 34.5692
Altitude: 750 [m.a.s.l.]
Engraved rocks are located on the slope above the road just after passing Tarakhil village.
According to local informants, a group was going to a wedding party when brigands attacked them. A holy man who accompanied them transformed the victims into these engravings to escape the massacre.

ceramic, delimited ground space, fortified structure, funerary structure, trail, undetermined structure
cone, ravine, slope
Comments on the environment: none

scattered
medium

open air
petroglyph
undocumented
boulder slab wall

contemporary, historic, pre-historic

Visits: J. Bourgeois (1969): surveyed
good
Comments on the condition: none

General statistics for the zone

item #
rocks 116
See also detailed motif and scene statistics for the site

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