a French officer made a sensational discovery in the south-east of the present-day Republic of Algeria. In the Tassili highlands, lie found rock paintings which scientists have since confirmed as the ...

On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect ...

Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya ... which have yielded abundant lithic and ceramic material. However, it is the rock art (engravings and paintings) that ...

One of the most rewarding to visit is Timimoun, located in the north on the shores of an immense sand sea of over 23,000sq miles. It’s nicknamed La Rouge (‘the red’) for its ochre-red mud ...