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Partially excavated places tagged “engraving”

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🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art

Messak Settafet Rock Art

Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan

Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.

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🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art

Twyfelfontein Rock Engravings

Late Stone Age to early pastoral (6000 BCE – 1000 CE) · San hunter-gatherer (Ju/'hoansi ancestors)

Namibia's sole UNESCO World Heritage site besides Brandberg, Twyfelfontein holds over 2,500 engravings pecked into a 600-m sandstone outcrop of Etjo formation.