Tadrart Acacus

* This name is listed on the World Heritage List. ª The region is classified by UNESCO.

The Tadrart Acacus (Arabic تدرارت عكاكس, DMG TADRART ʿ akakus ) is a mountain range in southwestern Libya. It is located near the Libyan city of Ghat and near the rock massif Idinen. A western extension is the Tassili Tadrart.

The Acacus Mountains or the Acacus is a desert landscape in Libya. As access to the area, the mountain and desert city of Ghat serve.

The climate there is hot. The temperatures are even in October yet at 30 ° C in the shade. The desert itself is dominated by mountains, rocks, sand and dunes. It can be rock monuments find, comparable to those of the Arches National Park in the United States. In caves, there are prehistoric engravings of elephants and water buffalo from the period around 4000 BC They are similar to those in the Algerian Tassili Mountains. The paintings document the periods in which the region was more humid and thus a much more fertile landscape offered. The labyrinthine mountains is traveled and inhabited by Tuareg, but can also serve Europeans with good constitution as a tourist destination. When traveling to the region you leave the departure point, a list of group members.

The petroglyphs in the Libyan part of the Tadrart have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985. 1958 succeeded the spectacular discovery of the mummy of Uan Muhuggiag children. Since 1955, hundreds of thousands of rock carvings and drawings by Italian and Libyan archaeologists were cataloged. Their emergence time extends from the Pleistocene ( 12000-8000 BC) until the first century after Christ. Can follow up to today's desert, both the development of human society and the gradual climate changes from a savanna landscape over periods of wetter climate for the depicted scenes.

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