Algeria is home to some of the world's most significant ancient rock art.
12,000 - 2,000 B.C.E.
Algeria is home to some of the world's most significant ancient rock art.
12,000 - 2,000 B.C.E.
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Rock art is one of the best records of the life of past peoples who lived across the Sahara.
These images reveal how the Sahara changed from rich grassland to inhospitable desert over thousands of years.
Who is this mysterious running horned woman, painted in a secluded, difficult to access part of Tassili?
Tassili n’Ajjer’s “forests of stone” are the site of painted and engraved images, some up to 12,000 years old.
Roger Shimomura
Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.