Egypt’s Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old:
Rock face drawings and etchings recently rediscovered in southern Egypt are similar in age and style to the iconic Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain, archaeologists say.“It is not at all an exaggeration to call it ‘Lascaux on the Nile,’” said expedition leader Dirk Huyge, curator of the Egyptian Collection at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium.
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The engravings—estimated to be about 15,000 years old—were chiseled into several sandstone cliff faces at the village of Qurta, about 400 miles (640 kilometers) south of Cairo.Of the more than 160 figures found so far, most depict wild bulls. The biggest is nearly six feet (two meters) wide.