Thursday, December 20, 2007

Desert trip - the rock art

First someone steals our bin - twice! - then someone tries to break in. Tsk Tsk.










Anyway, here's some photos of the ancient cave paintings and etchings scattered throughout the region in the south of Libya. The art shifts over time from depicting wild animals like giraffes, elephants and rhinoceroses, to cattle, to horses and finally to camels and date palms, reflecting the change in landscape from a savannah paradise, to plains, to semi-arid, to the desert of today.

Pictures posted in no particular dating order or theme...




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