The Marked Rock has been studied by many and while some of the symbols clearly resemble samples of ancient scripts from different lands, no one can say for certain exactly what they mean.
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The boulder was actually brought to his present resting place in a city park along the banks of Plum Creek in the city of Manchester, Kentucky. Known from early pioneer days at its original site the rock was part of a rock shelter along the road side. It was a well known land mark until its unfortunate fall in a rock slide a number of years ago. A local citizen interested in preserving the amazing bit of prehistory enlisted help of a lot of folks and brought the massive stone to its present location.
What do the markings represent? No one has ever figured that out for sure other than the speculation. Whether they truly represent ancient alphabets or the idle doodling natives, the answer will probably never been known. The rock is a wonder to see and certainly worth stopping by and seeing.
A shelter and fence stand today protecting the Red Bird Petroglyph from the elements as well as vandals wishing to add their own graffiti to the rock.
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So what do you think these strange markings mean? We'd love to hear your thoughts and theories on the strange rock located in Manchester, Ky. Leave your comments in the space below.
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Ed Henson
Do you know who translated this? I was trying to compare to ancient egyptian hieroglyphics or ancient arabic and nothing matches up. It kind of looks more like they were tracking the stars and moon for directions.
ReplyDeleteNo, I do not unfortunately. I went back and reviewed the markers but no credit is given to who interpreted the markings. It seems to me that your theory is just as valid as the claims made about ancient writings. More and more is being discovered about ancient carvings. In fact, this up coming weekend (April 4-5,2014) a conference event open to the public concerning rock carvings is being held at Natural Bridge State Resort Park at Slade, Kentucky. It is called the 2014 Eastern States Rock Art Research Conference. My guess is there will be folks there that have ideas on the Red Bird Rock.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, some day there may be a “Rosetta Stone” that falls out of some rock slide or cave, and all will be revealed! It has happened before! That would be so marvelous!
ReplyDeleteThat is entirely possible. There will always be future discoveries and maybe this will be one of those discoveries.
ReplyDeleteI can read this and point you in the right direction
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