ROCK ENGRAVINGS

These few cave engravings were the subject of an initial archaeological report in 1968. In total, there are to hide there, among the herbs and the wild thyme. The largest is that of a bovidé 2 m in length and about 1 m high. The majority of the engravings also represent cattle, but there is also a beautiful burning of front-disc rhino (symbolic sign, under his ears) and two cats engravings to be determined. Testifying to the fauna that was then found in the region, they are Neolithic times: their style and the archeological evidence found nearby would coincide with the beginning of the pastoral stadium (ancient Neolithic). Most of the bovidae have the horns moving forward. Four have the horns at the vertical, and two have the horns towards the back. The over-representation of bovidae bovidae seems to confirm Herodotus's testimony when he writes well later than Libyan steers have large forward-looking horns that forced them to graze backwards so that they don't get to the ground! Although its situation close to the coastline makes it one of the most northerly rock sites in the north of the Maghreb, this is not the only small cave site in northern Libya. There is one between Misratha and Zliten.