[note: Salima Ikram is a woman, not a man as said in the article.]
Etchings at Qurta, located about 400 miles (640 kilometers) south of Cairo, Egypt, depict a now extinct species of wild cow. The rediscovered artwork -- similar in look and age to iconic paintings in Spain and France -- pushes "Egyptian art, religion, and culture back to a much earlier time," archaeologists say. [Photographs courtesy Dirk Huyge]
1 posted on 07/13/2007 8:23:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv