PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A petroglyph site that lets Arizonans peer into the past was unearthed, moved and tossed aside in north Phoenix.

“I cried,” said Maureen O’Halloran, who lives in Phoenix’s Moon Valley community. A short walk from her home lies one of the places where you can find petroglyphs, which are rock carvings made by people who lived here in the distant past.

Pictures some of the carvings, like one that appears to be a lizard. The site attracts people from all over, according to O’Halloran, which is why it came as a shock when she saw construction crews working for a nearby church moving the boulders.

“The gentleman was very nice, and I let him know that it was protected, a protected site it is a mountain preserve and there are petroglyphs here,” said O’Halloran when she con

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