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Ancient mystery in NC: Judaculla Rock holds 1,500-year-old petroglyphs

Historians believe members of the Cherokee tribe were carving glyphs in the NC mountains around 500 A.D. The carvings in Judaculla Rock in western NC date back to within a century of "the Fall of Rome." Around that same time, the Dark Ages and Medieval Age had only just begun in Europe. Europe would have still been inhabited by tribes such as the Franks, Saxons and Visigoths.

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