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Text Pages: Cave of Swimmers - Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art in Egypt in Upper Egypt (South)

Submitted by AlexHunger on Sunday, 15 February 2009  Page Views: 1279
Other Archaeology Site Name: Cave of Swimmers Alternative Name: Höle der Schwimmer, Grotte des Nageurs
Country: Egypt County: Upper Egypt (South) Type: Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art
Nearest Town: Dakhla Oasis Nearest Village: Al Khufrah Oasis
Latitude: 23.594648N  Longitude: 25.233570E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art in Upper Egypt (South)

The Cave of Swimmers is a cave in southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya, in the mountainous Gilf Kebir region of the Sahara Desert. It was discovered in October 1933 by the legendary Hungarian explorer László Almásy, (the English Patiet of Holliwood fame). It contains rock painting images of people swimming estimated to have been created around 10,000 BCE ago during the time of the last Ice Age.

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