African Rock Art‬ (British Museum)

British Museum

What is ‪#‎AfricanRockArt‬? Find out from Elizabeth Galvin, Curator of the African rock art image project at the British Museum. Elizabeth and her team are currently cataloguing and uploading 25,000 digital images of rock art from across Africa. This collection represents some of the first purely digital objects to be registered in the Museum’s collectionhttp://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/

Discover rock art in ‪#‎Mauritania‬, the latest country catalogued in the‪#‎AfricanRockArt‬ project http://ow.ly/KBabB

Discover some of the wonderful representations of horses in northern ‪#‎AfricanRockArt‬ in this new article http://ow.ly/JJW9p

You can now explore ‪#‎AfricanRockArt‬ from ‪#‎Chad‬ with new images available online. Chad has thousands of rock art engravings and paintings, some up to 7,000 years old! http://ow.ly/JFCPA

Throughout the caves, canyons and shelters of the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, thousands of images have been painted and engraved, comprising one of the biggest collections of rock art in the Sahara. A series of engravings at Niola Doa of groups of life-sized human figures have become especially renowned for their singularity and quality http://ow.ly/JFDIc

This week we’re highlighting the ‪#‎AfricanRockArt‬ project, cataloguing 30,000 years of rock art http://ow.ly/Jzl3g