Wadi Mathendous

Wadi al Hayaa District · Libya

Wadi Mathendous, Libya
Photo: ruba_ch/Rudolf Baumann, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A dry valley in the Messak plateau covered with some of the Sahara's finest prehistoric rock engravings, including elephants, giraffes and the famous fighting cats. The carvings record a once-green desert teeming with wildlife.

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