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The people: Apart the person with elevated arms (as mentioned earlier), we have a lot of people represented on the rocks, some hunting with bows, while others standing on boats. What is notable about them is what they are wearing = feathers. Some of the people standing on boats only have 2 very long feathers on their heads, giving the impression they are horns. One carving in particular turned out to be terribly problematic = Some see in this a centaur while others see it as a man standing in front of a domesticated animal, like a bull. It’s open for debate as well.
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The carving style: Compared to the exquisite advanced carving on the palettes, these carving look very archaic don’t they?
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The Era: Upon taking a general look on the carvings, we will notice that MOST are from pre-dynastic era, but SOME were ADDED NEXT to them from the dynastic Egypt and even from later on = the Ptolemaic times. It’s like going through one huge catalogue carved on rocks, with the timeline starting from Pre-dynastic times all the way to the reign of the Lagides Dynasty. So anons, don’t get confused when you see these pictures. The carving techniques and styles are easily recognized from one era to the other. Don’t go telling me these are dynastic era carvings. I’ve just said it: those were added to the old ones, on a later date.
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The writings = inscriptions: Some see in some of the peculiar carving as early signs of Hieroglyphic writing.
From all the artifacts we’ve seen so far, it seems to me that the further we go up the Nile inwards Africa, the older the artifacts and archaeological findings are. I’m going to repeat what I was trying to say earlier about this issue: this is the same as the Sumerians with the Euphrates. The Rivers are both like a CHRONOLOGICAL SPINE; the further we moved upstream the older everything is.
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