According to legend, the carvers were assisted by angels. Mecca This city in Saudi Arabia, the place toward which Muslims face when praying, surrounds a sacred stone said to have fallen from heaven. Muslims believe the stone was white and turned black absorbing human sin. For years, a dragon, frigid snow worms, and other mythical creatures were thought to guard this 17,000-foot mountain in eastern Turkey. Tassili N Ajjer Prehistoric paintings, some almost 7,000 years old, cover this rocky plateau 900 miles southeast of Algiers.
Scholars say they hint at mystical practices once common but now lost in the mists of time.
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