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The month-long Sahara Art and Crafts shopping festival under way here is evoking warm response from locals, with weekends seeing heavy visitor turnout. The exhibition, which is being held at the ...
Designs and fabrics from across the country await you at the Sahara Art and Craft Shopping Festival 2009 going on at Marine Drive. A fine combo of tradition and trend, the expo offers the best of ...
Under the theme «Caftan, Heritage in a Desert Dress», it pays homage to the Sahara, a vital repository of the nation's cultural, artistic, and craft legacy. «This edition of Caftan Week invites ...
(See the ancient Roman city buried in the Algerian Sahara for centuries.) The French archaeologist Henri Lhote, who documented many of Tassili’s 15,000 pieces of rock art in the 1950s and was ...
The archeologists examined rock art on hypothetical routes through the flat, hyper-arid deserts between Gebel Rafit, to the east, and Wadi Halfa, near Sudan’s border with Egypt. In Wadi Halfa ...
Deep in the Sahara, ancient rock art depicts a fleet of boats and cattle, providing a glimpse of the desert's green past before climate change transformed the region thousands of years ago.
We discovered 16 new rock art sites east of the Sudanese city of Wadi Halfa, in one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara. This area receives almost no yearly rainfall. Almost all of these rock ...