More re Qurta rock art
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More re Qurta rock art


Thanks very much to Dirk Huyge for sending me a copy of his upcoming press release about the Qurta rock art in the journal Antiquity. The two page PDF has been stored as two separate JPEGs on this page. Click on each to load them and then again to magnify them.






- Lascaux Along The Nile Revisited
Yale News (Dorie Baker) Using a new technology known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), a team of Belgian scientists and Professor John Coleman Darnell of Yale have determined that Egyptian petroglyphs found at the east bank of the Nile are about...

- Online Resource: Inora
International Newsletter on Rock Art For anyone interested in rock art, Egyptian or otherwise, it may be worth checking out the above INORA page. The newsletter is available to download free of charge in PDF format. The most recent issue showing on the...

- Rock Art At Qurta - Inora 51 2008
International Newsletter on Rock Art (in PDF Format) Thanks very much to Dr Dirk Huyge for letting me know that an article about his work at Qurta is available on the above website, free of charge. The article is accompanied by a map of the site's...

- More Re Lascaux Type Images On The Nile
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/849/he1.htm Nevine El-Aref takes up the story of the Qurta images recently publicized in a press release, and now described in the June 2007 issue of Antiquity. There is nothing very new in this article, but as usual Nevine...

- 15,000 Year Old Palaeolithic Rock Art At Qurta
15/05/06 Press ReleaseUnfortunately there is no URL for an online home for the following press release, which was sent to me by email: Belgian Arcaheological Mission Traces Oldest Art in Egypt: 15,000 year old Palaeolithic rock art sites at Qurta are...



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