The Acacus Mountains or Tadrart Akakus (Arabic: تدرارت أكاكوس / ALA-LC: Tadrārt Akākūs) form a mountain range in the desert of the Ghat District in western Libya, part of the Sahara. They are situated east of the city of Ghat, Libya, and stretch north from the border with Algeria, about 100 kilometres (62 mi). The area has a particularly rich array of prehistoric rock art.
The AcacusMountains or Tadrart Akakus (Arabic: تدرارت أكاكوس / ALA-LC: Tadrārt Akākūs) form a mountain range in the desert of the Ghat District in western...
Acacus can refer to: Acacus (Greek mythology), King of Arcadia, and the foster-father of the infant Hermes in Greek mythology Acacus (phasmid), a genus...
is an archaeological site and rock shelter located in the Tadrart AcacusMountains of southwestern Libya. During the Holocene, humans occupied the site...
Other groundwater systems were active at that time in the AcacusMountains, Air Mountains, in the Fezzan and elsewhere in Libya and the Sahel. Raised...
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Highlights included the superb pre-historic rock art sites of the AcacusMountains (contiguous with the Tassili n’Ajjer in adjacent Algeria) and the nearby...
lighthouse in Benghazi on the front and the Rock formation in the Tadrart Acacusmountains on the back. This is the first note in Libya to utilize Crane's "Motion"...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
earlier era of abundant animal life and human habitation. The Uweinat mountain range at the very south of the plateau extends from Egypt into Libya and...
bird's-eye view of the city and the nearby palm plantations, as well as the AcacusMountains, with their charming rock carvings, and golden sand dunes, whereas...
known as Tibesti Massif or Tibesti Mountains located in central Sahara, extending from Niger and Libya. The mountains are volcanic and are approximately...
Ennedi-Ouest and Ennedi-Est. It is considered a part of the group of mountains known as the Ennedi Massif found in Chad, which is one of the nine countries...
paintings at Matobo National Park 12,000 BC – The rock paintings at the AcacusMountains 13,000 BC – Engravings in the Cave of the Trois-Frères, most notably...
Ghadamès". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011. "Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011. "Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
on the bank of the Wadi Teshuinat, sitting on a plateau in the Tadrart Acacus at almost 3000 feet above sea level. The site is approximately 1500 miles...
15–30 km large and 150 km long southern prolongation of the Libyan Tadrart Acacus into Algeria spanning to the frontier of Niger. Primarily composed of sandstone...
located in the Wadi Sura at the south-western foot of the Gilf Kebir Mountains in the remote south-western corner of Egypt’s New Valley Governorate near...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
significance for the peoples of Dhar Tichitt. In the Tadrart Acacus, the period of the Late Acacus hunter-gatherers was followed by an arid period in 8200...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
Tadjelahine sandstone plateau some 20 km west of Iherir in the Tassili n'Ajjer mountains in southeast Algeria. The two shelters, situated 8 km from each other...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...
slopes, together with those of the supporting bastions — the Tassili and the Acacus to the north, Ennedi and Air to the south — carried olive, juniper and Aleppo...
art of the Djelfa region Marhouma Morocco Rock art of Figuig Libya AcacusMountains Wadi Mathendous Mesak Settafet Uan Muhuggiag Egypt Abu Ballas Sudan...