🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Hammamat — Quarry and Rock Inscriptions
Predynastic to Roman (3000 BCE–400 CE) · Egyptian Pharaonic → Roman
Wadi Hammamat is the 80 km Nile–Red Sea desert wadi with sole greywacke (bekhen-stone) quarries for Egyptian sarcophagi since 3000 BCE and 2,500 rock inscriptions from Naqada III to Roman: Qadesh,…