Archaeologists from Macquarie University and Polish Academy of Science’s Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Culture have discovered 16 new rock art sites in the Sudanese Eastern Desert or the ‘Atbai.’ Almost all of the newly-discovered artwork, which dates back 4,000 years, features the presence of cattle.
Painted rock art at a site around Gebel Nahoganet in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. Image credit: Cooper et al., doi: 10.1177/03075133231211.
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