Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

Painted herds of cattle, giraffes, elephants and dancing figures animate the rock shelters of the Tadrart Acacus, a wind-carved massif in Libya's far south-west adjoining Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer. The art spans an astonishing arc from about 12,000 BC to AD 100, recording the Sahara's transformation from savannah to desert and the shifting lives of its peoples. UNESCO inscribed these rock-art sites in 1985 as a painted archive of a greener Sahara.