If you're thinking of writing a techno-thriller on the order of a Clive Cussler novel, which typically begins with some historical event that will end up being of importance to the present day, why not think about the setting of Armenian Rock Art, which British Archaeology magazine Mar/Apr 2010 profiles:
"Within an extinct volcano (I love volcanoes - hence the name of this blog) beside a glacial lake at 3300 m above sea level between the Black and CAspian Seas, is one of the world's most extraordinary outdoor galleries of ancient art."
This art, located in Armenia, is "prehistoric carvings pecked on smooth surfaces of glaciated rocks and boulders.
A joint UK-Armenian team set out to study the art. Although the art is little known outside Armenia, inside Armenia it is a tourist attraction, and like tourists everywhere, people come, they see, they take souvenirs, so the sites are gradually being destroyed.
"The motifs" [of the art] "include long-horned bezoar goats (still occasionally seen in Armenia) as well as deer, cattle, wolves or dogs, human figures, "snakes" and what are described as a "number of peculiarly expressive leopards."
It has been suggested that the petroglyphs date from the 5th to the 2nd millenia BC. Depictions of wheeled transport may depict a Bronze Age (3500-1200 BC).
A video of Armenia today
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