Egypt
- Features
Videos: Prehistoric Paintings, The Swimmers and The Beast in Gilf Kebir Heritage Key Thanks to Tass for sending me the link. This page a video from the Gilf Kebir showing (briefly) the Cave of Swimmers and (in much more detail) the Mestekawi Foggini cave,...
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
If anyone wants to contact me by email whilst I'm away that's fine, but please use my easynet address, not my UCL one. I've forgotten my latest UCL password so I can't retrieve anything sent to the UCL email address. As a general rule...
- In Pictures: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
BBC News A set of nice photographs from some of Egypt's more unusual places. Here's the text accompanying the first photograph, showing rock art at the Mestekawi-Foggini Cave: Egypt's western desert shelters a treasure trove of prehistoric...
- Daily Photo - Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Again, I'll leave today's explanation to someone else. This is taken from an article about a visit to the Gilf Kebir by Mohamed El-Hebeishy on the Al Ahram Weekly website. El-Mestekawi Cave was discovered during an expedition similar to ours...
- Cave Of The Beasts
Amateur explorers have stumbled upon a cave filled with paintings which may be at least 8000 years old. The cave known as "Cave of the beasts" is located within a few miles of the famous "Cave of the swimmers" in the south west desert that borders Egypt...
Egypt
Mosaic of the Mestekawi-Foggini cave
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Thanks to Giancarlo Negro for sending me the above link to a mosaic of the rock art in the Mestekawi-Foggini cave in the western Gilf Kebir (Libyan borders of Egypt). To get the best out of these images you need to click on them and give them time to load. You can then click again to zoom in on specific parts of the cave paintings. If you have been there it is wonderful to be able to zoom in on the bits that you particularly like. If you have never seen the cave it is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss is about :-)
Thanks to Giancarlo Negro for sending me the above link to a mosaic of the rock art in the Mestekawi-Foggini cave in the western Gilf Kebir (Libyan borders of Egypt). To get the best out of these images you need to click on them and give them time to load. You can then click again to zoom in on specific parts of the cave paintings. If you have been there it is wonderful to be able to zoom in on the bits that you particularly like. If you have never seen the cave it is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss is about :-)
- Features
Videos: Prehistoric Paintings, The Swimmers and The Beast in Gilf Kebir Heritage Key Thanks to Tass for sending me the link. This page a video from the Gilf Kebir showing (briefly) the Cave of Swimmers and (in much more detail) the Mestekawi Foggini cave,...
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
If anyone wants to contact me by email whilst I'm away that's fine, but please use my easynet address, not my UCL one. I've forgotten my latest UCL password so I can't retrieve anything sent to the UCL email address. As a general rule...
- In Pictures: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
BBC News A set of nice photographs from some of Egypt's more unusual places. Here's the text accompanying the first photograph, showing rock art at the Mestekawi-Foggini Cave: Egypt's western desert shelters a treasure trove of prehistoric...
- Daily Photo - Mestekawi-foggini Cave
Again, I'll leave today's explanation to someone else. This is taken from an article about a visit to the Gilf Kebir by Mohamed El-Hebeishy on the Al Ahram Weekly website. El-Mestekawi Cave was discovered during an expedition similar to ours...
- Cave Of The Beasts
Amateur explorers have stumbled upon a cave filled with paintings which may be at least 8000 years old. The cave known as "Cave of the beasts" is located within a few miles of the famous "Cave of the swimmers" in the south west desert that borders Egypt...