Magharet el Kantara
Magharet el Kantara or Shaw’s Cave (Arabic: مغارة القنطرة, arched cave) is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. Located on the south-western slopes of Gilf Kebir, it was discovered in 1935 by the explorers Bill Kennedy Shaw and Rupert Harding Newman.[1]
The cave of Magharet el-Kantara | |
Shown within Egypt | |
Location | Gilf Kebir |
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Region | New Valley Governorate, Egypt |
Coordinates | 22°58′56″N 25°59′11″E |
History | |
Periods | Neolithic |
Description
The cave is four m high and 15 m wide. About half a meter above the ground there are rock paintings of a herd of differently drawn cattle and a farmstead representing a rare example of cattle paintings in the Gilf Kebir that otherwise are abundant in the nearby Jebel Ouenat.[2] These Neolithic rock paintings testify the favorable climatic conditions of life during the African humid period much different from the present one.[3]
- Rock painted farmstead
- Rock painted cattle
- Rock painted shepherds with cattle
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References
- Bill Kennedy Shaw, Rock Paintings in the Libyan Desert. In: Antiquity, a quarterly review of world archaeology, ISSN 0003-598X, V. 10, 38 (1936), pp. 175–178.
- Rudolph Kuper: Archaeology of the Gilf Kebir National Park Retrieved 2020/04/20.
- Yves Gauthier and Giancarlo Negro, Magharat el-kantara (Shaw’s Cave) revisite : art rupstre du sud Gilf Kebir (Egypte de sud-ouest). In: Sahara : preistoria e storia del Sahara, ISSN 1120-5679, V. 9 (1997), pp. 124–133.
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