In the early 1930's, a French officer made a sensational discovery in the south-east of the present-day Republic of Algeria. In the Tassili highlands, lie found rock paintings which scientists have ...

(See the ancient Roman city buried in the Algerian Sahara for centuries.) The French archaeologist Henri Lhote, who documented many of Tassili’s 15,000 pieces of rock art in the 1950s and was ...

On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect ...

Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings ... from the ...