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
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
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.
Gilf Kebir
…paintings nearby. In January 2003, Zerzura Expeditions and Jacopo Foggini independently discovered a major new rock art site in the Western Gilf Kebir (Foggini-Mestekawi Cave). The North-western half of the Gilf Kebir aside from Wadi Sura has only a few scattered engravings, of an apparently very ancient age…
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