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  • Gilf al-Kebir, 'The Great Barrier' is an immense rocky plateau.

  • whose smooth summit rises to an altitude of just over 3000 feet.

  • Since time immemorial it has been battered by the great sea of sand.

  • Nowhere in the world is as arid and as desolate as this huge desert plateau,

  • and yet, thousands of years ago, there was once water,

  • and animals, and men.

  • And it was here in 1930s, when the Hungarian explorer Laszlo Almasy

  • made a sensational discovery.

  • But the rock pictures of the Cave of the Swimmers discovered by Almasy

  • are nothing compared with the abundance and sacred rituality

  • of those to be found in this other cave.

  • These extraordinary scenes of the life and the mysterious and long forgotten civilization

  • have recently been discovered.

  • Hunting, love, games, fishing, parents holding the hand of their children...

  • Not to mention all kinds of animals: gazelles, lions, dogs, giraffes...

  • and a weird creature – a huge bull or elephant, headless, but with the man's legs,

  • that seems to be devouring the human beings.

  • It has been interpreted as representing the transition from life to death.

  • The big question everybody's asking about this cave

  • is what the heck are these animals,

  • these big animals. – The beast.

  • The beast: what is it?

  • When we saw this cave, we automatically saw a beast

  • and all of a sudden everybody realised

  • that this is the same beast painted in all the other engravings and paintings of Wadi Sura.

  • Cooper says that, for him, this explains the symbol of capture,

  • not the symbol of the death at all.

  • He thinks that this is the symbol of human being showing

  • the most powerful thing he did like an imaginary animal,

  • like that the Japanese had, for example.

  • An imaginary animals, they are representing how humans that are very small next to it

  • were able to capture it and completely shoot its head.

  • After 10 thousand years these places are still communicating the intensity,

  • with which early men tried to make contact with the afterlife.

  • And there are so many things of dancing classes.

Gilf al-Kebir, 'The Great Barrier' is an immense rocky plateau.

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吉爾夫-凱比爾的史前畫作。 (Prehistoric Paintings in Gilf Kebir)

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    QAM Chen 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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