Egypt's rock drawings 15000 years old


	Egypt's rock drawings 15000 years old

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7-12-2007 6:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d3fc2f2f-2861-45e5-bd14-e549e131dfd1/0E495F0B-D9B2-4920-8B22-E0F24AEAED67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/_Egypts_rock_drawings_15000_yrs_old/articleshow/2197271.cms" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/_Egypts_rock_drawings_15000_yrs_old/articleshow/2197271.cms" style="font-size: 11px;">timesofindia.indiatimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/_Egypts_rock_drawings_15000_yrs_old/articleshow/2197271.cms">Archaeologists claim to have discovered Egypt's oldest known rock face drawings
and etchings, dating back 15, 000 years ago, in the village of Qurta, some 400
miles south of capital,
Cairo</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/_Egypts_rock_drawings_15000_yrs_old/articleshow/2197271.cms">
 The drawings are similar
in age and style to the iconic Stone Age paintings in Lascaux, France, and
Altamira, Spain, they have said</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/_Egypts_rock_drawings_15000_yrs_old/articleshow/2197271.cms"><SPAN>
 "The style is riveting. The
art is unlike anything seen elsewhere in Egypt," added Salima Ikram of the
American University in Cairo, who was part of Huyge's team.
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 According to the researchers,
the engravings were chiselled into sandstone cliff faces at the Qurta.
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 Of the more than 160 figures
found so far, most depict wild bulls. The biggest is nearly six feet (two
meters) wide, they said. 
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 "The
drawings push Egyptian art, religion, and culture back to a much earlier time,"
National Geographic quoted Ikram as saying.
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 The team's findings will be
published in the September issue of the journal Antiquity.
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 "It is not at all an
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