Egypt's Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old

National Geographic ^ | 7-11-2007 | Dan Morrison

[blam]

Thanks to Shermy for the article.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[CholeraJoe]

Must have been carved right after the survivors of Atlantis washed ashore.

[Sacajaweau]

I always have trouble with this rock art. That’s because I took my “tools” and carved 1789 and some initials on a rock just off a highway near an historic trail. Of course, it was really 1989. Someday, someone will go bonkers.

[theDentist]

Couldn’t find a image, but I was reminded of “The First Art Critic” in Mel Brook’s “History of the World”.

[Sacajaweau]

Pretty “sharp” (defined) carvings for sandstone.

[T.Smith]

They seem much more detailed than I would expect. Even the Anasazi paintings in the American SW are little more than modified stick figure.

[Red_Devil 232]

I am told by some authorities that the age of the Earth is only 6,000 years ... this new science is such a lie! Another authoritative source tells me that all the ice every where on this planet is melting! I saw it on TV last weekend and by gore an image just appeared out of the ethos and said the same thing ... what to do!!! /s

[Hegemony Cricket]

The style is riveting...

[SunkenCiv]

‘Oldest Sculpture’ Found In Morocco (400K Years Old)
BBC | 5-23-2003 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 05/23/2003 8:52:37 AM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916512/posts

Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans - A landmark study of Paleolithic art
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology | 10 February 2006 | Dale Guthrie and Marie Gilbert
Posted on 02/15/2006 11:52:37 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1579039/posts

Are cave paintings really little more than the testosterone-fuelled scribblings of young men?
nature news | 31 may | some guy
Posted on 06/01/2006 10:17:07 AM EDT by S0122017
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1641738/posts

Mystery Of The Fat Venus (Porn?)
Stuff.com.nz | 4-9-2007 | Bob Brockie
Posted on 04/09/2007 5:38:27 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814611/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Sure, now you tell me. ;') Thanks Renfield.

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[Graymatter]

So how does that survive 15k yrs out in the open weather?

[colorado tanker]

Great post! What a resemblance to the European paleolithic art.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) I’m waiting for the dating. Of course, if the dating shows it’s only 5000 or 6000 years old (still old, but not in the same ballpark), the cheerleaders for these finds will reject the dating anyway. :’)

Speaking of rejecting the dating, I screwed up my tagline and hadn’t noticed ‘til now. It’s like going around with my zipper down — except for those times I do that for fun.

[SunkenCiv]

[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]

She can leave very attractive photos, here's an example, just don't go searching the web for more, because they get less.

[colorado tanker]

:-))

[Fred Nerks]

Satellite image with localisation of the el-Hosh (Abu Tanqura Bahari) and Qurta rock art sites

Scaffolding at Qurta I, locality 1, panel 1

In total there are at least about 160 individual images. The rock art of Qurta consists mainly of naturalistically drawn animal figures. Bovids are largely predominant (at least 111 examples), followed by birds (at least 7 examples), hippopotami (at least 3 examples), gazelle (at least 3 examples), fish (2 examples) and ass (1 example). In addition, there are also (at least) 7 highly stylised representations of human figures (shown with pronounced buttocks, but no other bodily features).

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html

[wildbill]

Couldn’t find an image? Somewhere there is a photoshop of Helen Thomas as the Sphinx.

[theDentist]

That's not an image, it's carnage.

The one I'm thinking of is the painting on a cave wall, the artist (Sid Caesar) looking on as the critic (back to camera) pees on the painting.

[elli1]

More info here:

http://anthropology.net/2007/06/19/egyptian-palaeolithic-rock-art-found-at-qurta-kom-ombo/

and here:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/huyge/index.html