UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus is a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Libya, inscribed in 1985.

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 marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of th

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 marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara.

Country
Libya
Region
Asia
Category
Cultural
Inscribed
1985
UNESCO reference
287
Area
3,923,961 ha

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