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Tadrart Acacus

Tadrart Acacus is a World Heritage Site, well known thousands of prehistoric cave paintings, dating from 12000 BC to 100 AD, and its alien-like, jagged landscape of bizarre basalt monoliths, towering granite mountains (the highest point being 1506m), endless wadis, and mushroom-shaped rock formations. The rock-art sites of Tadrart Acacus are found in a vast area of desert landscape around the town of Ghat in south-western Libya. The area includes the Acacus mountain range, and borders the Tassili N’Ajjer world heritage site in neighbouring Algeria. Together with the Tassili N’Ajjer, it is the premier rock-art area in the world, with hundreds of engravings and thousands of paintings. The Acacus was included on the World Heritage List only based on criterion III: an exceptional testimony to a series of civilizations which have disappeared. Tadrart Acacus contains some of the most extraordinary scenery in the world and has its unique natural wonders: dunes, isolated towers emerging from the sand and eroded into the most bizarre shapes, petrified arches, and canyons carved by ancient rivers. This territory has outstanding universal value for the quality and density of its rock art engravings, for the substantial evidence the collection of rock art images presents for hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in pre-historic times and for the cultural continuity between prehistoric and mediaeval times that the site reflects. Tadrart Acacus has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 BC to AD 100, bearing traces of the different phases of the Palaeolithic. For example, in Wadi Tashwinat, there is an intricate network of caves, which provided shelter for prehistoric people for thousands of years. In Wadi Tanshalt there is some of the best rock art in the southern parts of Acacus, with scenes of cows, stylized human figures, and ancient Tuareg Tifinagh inscriptions. In Wadi Anshal there are elephant and giraffe engravings, and paintings of women, and in Wadi Ferdan hunting scenes of humans carrying bows and arrows in pursuit of animals.