Sinai rock shelter holds 10,000 years of human history

By Jordan Joseph – Earth.com

Researchers have documented a single rock shelter in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that preserves nearly 10,000 years of human drawings, inscriptions, and daily-use debris in one place.

Researchers have documented a single rock shelter in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that preserves nearly 10,000 years of human drawings, inscriptions, and daily-use debris in one place.

Along the eastern edge of the plateau, a sandstone overhang stretches for more than 330 feet and narrows into a low, protected interior.

Across that ceiling, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities recorded dense layers of red paintings, gray figures, and carved inscriptions within the same confined space.