Cave of Beasts
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The Cave of the Beasts is a huge natural rock shelter in the Western Desert of Egypt featuring Neolithic rock paintings, more than 7,000 years old, with about 5,000 figures.
Cave of Beasts – cut out
Detailed view of a beast
Hand stencils over-painted with groups human beings
Dancing human beings over-painted with yellow pigmented creatures
Gilf Kebir
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Gilf Kebir is a plateau in the New Valley Governorate of the remote southwest corner of Egypt, and southeast Libya. Its name translates as "the Great Barrier". This 7,770 km2 sandstone plateau, roughl
Cave of Beasts
…Neolithic rock paintings, more than 7,000 years old, with about 5,000 figures. The shelter is located in the Wadi Sura at the south-western foot of the Gilf Kebir Mountains in the remote south-western corner of Egypt's New Valley Governorate near the border of Libya and Sudan. The area, abandoned in the present…
View from the top of Gilf Kebir overlooking Wadi Sura
Ancient petroglyphs of a temperate era's giraffe, ostrich, and long-horned cow being herded
The Aqaba Pass