Tassili n Ajjer
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Location
Sahara desert

Country
Algeria

Year of Research
1982

Culture
  • Situated in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest. It is one of the most important groupings of early cave art in the world.
  • More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal relocations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 6000 BC to the first centuries of the present period.
  • The geological formations are of dazzling scenic interest, with eroded sandstones forming ‘forests of rock’.