The Mount Bego region has revealed nearly 40,000 rock engravings, distributed between the Val de Fontanalba on its eastern slope and the Vallée des Merveilles on its western part, making it a unique site with an exceptional archaeological heritage.
It is estimated that these engravings were made between the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age, between 3000 and 1500 BCE for the most part.
These rock-cut engravings are ideograms illustrating the pastoral and probably religious life of the people of protohistory. There we find in particular, as on the Sacred Way (photo 4) of the Fontanalba valley, representations of:
Hitches (photo 1): two horned beasts connected by a yoke and pulling a rudimentary plow (tiller and plow) driven by a man
Corniformes (photo 2): these horned figures constitute more than three-quarters of the engravings around Mount Bego
Reticulated (photo 3): geometric figures divided into compartments
