🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Jebel Uweinat (Gebel Uweinat)
Neolithic to Middle Holocene (6000–1000 BCE) · Saharan Neolithic pastoral
1,940-m granite triple-border massif with Karkur Talh 25 km and bovid-hunter rock art 6000 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sora Cave of Swimmers
Early to Mid Holocene (6000–3000 BCE) · Saharan pastoral Neolithic (Gilf Kebir)
Wadi Sora (Wadi Sura) Cave of Swimmers (Cave II) in Gilf Kebir is Saharan pastoral rock art 6000–3000 BCE, famous for 1933 Almasy discovery of 'swimming' floating figures (actually swimming in wadi…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Ubirr Rainbow Serpent Gallery South
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Ubirr Rainbow Serpent Gallery South in Luxor, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Harlaa Urban Mound East — Western Desert (Siwa)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Western Desert, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Jebel Uweinat — Ain Doua Crest Rock Art Gallery
Pastoral Neolithic (6000–1500 BCE) · Uweinat pastoralists (Garamantian ancestor?)
Uweinat documented by Frobenius 1933 and Menardi Noguera, 6000 BCE cattle pastoralists.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sura – Cave of Swimmers & Cave of Beasts (Gilf Kebir)
Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic (Holocene humid A, B) · Gilf Kebir Holocene hunter-herders (pre-pastoral)
7,000 BCE Gilf Kebir painted shelters—8,000 hand stencils, 'swimmers' and therianthropic beasts in hyper-arid heart of Sahara.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Baraka Circle Rock Shelter
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Baraka Circle Rock Shelter in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) rock art attributed to Harappan culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Volubilis Olive Press Complex West — Western Desert (Siwa)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Volubilis Olive Press Complex West in Western Desert, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Gilf Kebir — Cave of Swimmers Annex Foggini-Mestekawi Cave
Holocene humid (7000–3000 BCE rock art) · Gilf hunter-gatherers (pre-pastoral)
Wadi Sura excavated by Almásy 1933 and Kuper 2009–, 7000 BCE hands, Lacan 7000.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sura — Cave of Beasts and Swimmers
Early Holocene (7000–6000 BCE Beasts) · Gilf early Holocene cattle herders and hunters
Sura Beasts excavated by Kuper 2010, 7000 BCE 13k stencils Africa biggest.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Zerzura — Gilf Large Cave Wadi Hamra
Early Holocene (8000–5000 BCE) hunter art · Gilf Holocene hunter
Wadi Hamra cave painted 7000 BCE hunters, Zerzura legend Almásy arch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Rock Art of Wall Nagar
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock Art of Wall Nagar in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
El Kab North Wadi Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.