Algeria and Libya are home to some of the world's most significant ancient rock art.
12,000–2,000 B.C.E.
Algeria and Libya are home to some of the world's most significant ancient rock art.
12,000–2,000 B.C.E.
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A Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, and which was Romanized in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
The mosque, whose prayer room has 13 aisles with eight bays, is one of the largest in Algeria.
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.
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Demonstrated by the Lion Temple in Naga and the Narmer Palette, Nubia and Egypt had a long history of interaction through trade, religion, and a shared visual language.
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