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Wadi Matkhendush- Travel Tips
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Wadi Mathendous, situated in Libya's southwestern Fezzan region within the Mesak Settafet escarpment, is a significant prehistoric archaeological site renowned for its extensive collection of petroglyphs. These rock engravings, dating back approximately 8,000 years to the Neolithic period, depict a variety of fauna, including elephants, giraffes, aurochs, wildcats, and crocodiles, reflecting a time when the Sahara was a verdant landscape. The site showcases the "Wild Fauna" style of rock art, characterized by deep relief carvings created using flint tools. The presence of such diverse wildlife engravings indicates the region's historical ecological conditions and offers valuable insights into early human artistic expression.
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Reviews of Wadi Matkhendush
خالد ابوبكر - 5
Wadi don't scratch it
Abdo Kreima - 3
Taha Hussein Sayeh (Taha Jawashi) - 5
Dieter Kischlat - 5
On July 6th and 7th, 1850, the German African explorer Heinrich Barth passed close by - on the way from Murzuk to Ghat - and was the first to discover the rock engravings and paintings and recorded them in his travel diary. In 1932, Leo Frobenius carried out more intensive studies of the engravings here and named this area of the Fezzan Wadi In Habeter I, II and III. The marked point corresponds approximately to In Habeter II.
