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🇪🇬 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.