This remarkably naturalistic ancient cave painting of lounging women—more Matisse than Lascaux—is just a small portion of the thousands of works of cave and rock art at Tassili N’Ajjer, a UNESCO World Heritage site located on a high plateau deep in the Algerian Sahara. The Sahara was not always the desert it now is: In prehistoric times, Tassili N’Ajjer teemed with life. It supported abundant game, including large herd animals, that in turn nourished a vibrant human civilization. Discovered in 1933, the art at Tassili N’Ajjer goes back at least as far as the fourth millennium B.C. and can […]
