Case file · Sacred site
Ingá Stone
In 1944 IPHAN listed the Itacoatiaras of Ingá in Paraíba, a 24-metre rock face carved with deep Indigenous petroglyphs, as one of Brazil's first protected archaeological monuments.
1944 CE · -7.28, -35.61 · status: official
The account
The carvings' age is unknown. Ancient-astronaut and alternative writers have read them as star maps or a lost script.