Whispers from the desert

This volume is the first of a collection of four presenting the results of research carried out jointly by two teams (French and Egyptian) in a dry valley situated in Egypt’s Eastern desert over the last fifteen years: The wadi Abu Subeira, which opens onto the Nile valley some fifteen kilometers north of Aswan. The present study focuses more specifically on the discoveries of rock-art representations attributable to the Predynastic period, in the 4th millennium. Nearly a thousand previously unpublished panels, comprising some twenty thousand engravings, are made accessible to the reader, thus renewing our knowledge of prehistoric Egypt