如今旅行者都将阿里作为寻访西藏的极西目的地,也许他们并不知晓阿里还是西藏岩画发现最早、数量最多的地区。早在20世纪之初,就有一些热衷于亚洲探险的西方人士在那片荒凉如“月球景观”的高寒之地发现过众多岩画。1900年,斯文·赫定在《亚洲腹地旅行记》里记述了“雕刻着几个拿弓的猎夫追赶着羚羊”的图像。1907年,奥古斯特?弗兰克发表了他对阿里和拉达克地区岩画的临摹手稿。1937年,图 Nowadays, travelers are using Ali as a great destination for looking up Tibet. Perhaps they do not know Ali or the earliest and highest number of rock paintings in Tibet. As early as the beginning of the twentieth century, some Western people keen on Asian expeditions discovered numerous rock paintings in the desolate land of desolation such as the “Moon Landscape.” In 1900, Sven Heding described in his Travel in the Heart of Asia a picture of “chasing antelopes” with several hunters carrying a bow. In 1907, August Frank published his manuscript copy of the rock paintings in Ali and Ladakh. 1937, illustration