🇸🇴 Somalia · Rock art
Laas Geel Rock Art Complex
Early to Mid Holocene (7000–3000 BCE) · Early Pastoral Neolithic of the Horn (pre-Cushitic pastoralists)
Somaliland granite shelters 20 panels polychrome longhorn cattle 7000–3000 BCE.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Las Khorey
Las Qoray (Somali: Laasqoray, Arabic: لاسقُرَى Lāsqoray) is a historic coastal town in the Sanaag region of Somalia.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Karinhegane Rock Art (Castellated Shelter)
Neolithic pastoral to Recent (2500 BCE–1000 CE) · Pastoral Cushitic → Somali
Gorge system of 10 shelters with Somaliland's most naturalistic pastoral bovines, giraffes and elongated humans.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Dhambalin Rock Art (Caad)
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Buried city
Berbera — Buried Early Port North (Somalia)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Berbera — Buried Early Port North (Somalia) in Woqooyi Galbeed, Berbera, Somalia is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to Bro…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Galgala
Galgala is a town in Bari region of Somalia. The town has ancient markings of religious symbols and crosses and ancient remains of a cairns which commonly found in Sanaag and Bari, Somalia regions.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Buur Heybe
Buur Heybe, which translates to "The Hill of the Potter's Sand", is a late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological complex located in the largest granite inselberg in the inter-riverine region of the…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Jidali fort
Jidali fort was a cross-shaped fort of the Dervish era located in the town of Jidali in Sanaag, Somalia and is also the first place in Africa to be bombed via aerial bombardment by a tally of four…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Laas Geel
Neolithic Pastoral (c.5000–3000 BCE; dated by stratum ceramics) · Early Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic / Horn of Africa pastoralists
Exceptionally preserved Neolithic rock art shelters discovered 2002 by French team (Xavier Gutherz): 10 granite alcoves with polychrome paintings 5000–3000 BCE – long-horned cattle with udders,…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
El Dahir
El Dahir (Somali: Ceel-Daahir) formerly known as El Dofar (Somali: Ceel Doofaar), is a town in Bari, Somalia region of Puntland state of Somalia.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Gondershe
Gondershe, also known as Gandershe (Somali pronunciation: [gõnd̪eːrʃe], گندىرشى Somali pronunciation: [gandeːrʒe]; or El Torreh Somali pronunciation: [eɫ t̪oːr̩a] Al-Toureh Arabic pronunciation:…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Ancient city
Damo, Somalia
Damo (Somali: Daamo) is a small coastal settlement in Alula District, Bari region,Puntland, northeastern Somalia, situated approximately 5 km west of Cape Guardafui and facing the Guardafui Channel.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Ancient city
Botiala
Botiala (Somali: Butiyaalo), also known as Bottiala or Bandar Kor, is an archaeological site in the northeastern Bari region of Puntland.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Aw Garweyne
Aw Garweyne is an island of ancient habitation in the southeastern Lower Shabelle province of Somalia.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Laako
Laako is a town located in the eastern Sanaag region of Somaliland. The city lies between Badhan and El Ayo.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Gondal, Somalia
Gondal is a proto-Somali archaeological site in southern Somalia. The site of ancient ruins, it is considered a predecessor of Kismayo.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Booco
Booco is an archaeological site in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia.
