Tourism
Ennedi rock art
A landscape of sandstone and millennia-old art, listed as UNESCO World Heritage.
Credit : Sven Oehm, peintures rupestres de l’abri de Terkei, Ennedi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Context
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Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.
Ennedi and Tibesti hold one of Africa’s richest bodies of rock art: wild fauna and hunters, then cattle herds, and finally horses and dromedaries as the Sahara dried out. These works are fragile: never touch or wet them.
- Massive
- Ennedi, Tibesti
Location
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Media
Entry photo: Sven Oehm, peintures rupestres de l’abri de Terkei, Ennedi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
References
Key: Documented: based on the published sources cited below.
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