Monday, April 09, 2012

MATT SALUSBURY ON DOG HEADED MEN

http://mattsalusbury.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/short-history-of-dog-headed-men.html

In the deserts of Western Libya, on cliffs and boulders along the edge of a dry riverbed called Wadi Mattendush, are rock carvings cut by a culture making the jump from hunter-gathering to nomadic pastoral farming around 4,000 years ago. Possibly re-cut many times, their carvings show animals in a Libya before the Sahara arrived – giraffes and elephants are accurately depicted. One carving shows two dog-headed men dragging away the body of a rhino, or possibly using magic to control it.

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