This story is actually several weeks old, but since as National Geographic have now picked up on it, here it is again, with a photograph.
The team found several additional panels of artwork over a 1-mile-long (1.66 kilometer-long) stretch of 230-foot-tall (70-meter-tall) sandstone cliffs.
There is "little doubt" the engravings are 15,000-years-old, Huyge said. They depict a now extinct species of wild cow whose horns have been recovered from Paleolithic settlements nearby.
The drawings would be examined for lichens and organic grime called "varnish rind" that could be carbon dated or subjected to another process known as uranium series dating, Huyge added. Because the rocks are inorganic, they cannot be dated directly using these methods.
For the older articles, see the recent publication on the Antiquity website, and Nevine El Aref's excellent summary on Al Ahram Weekly
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