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Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
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Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

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Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Libya
Best of: Rock Art
Description:
On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.