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. . WIN, d-Dakhleh asis, Journal of l Trip in 1908. he Metropolitan

useum of Art, Department of Egyptian rt, vol. v. (New York, 1936), 10, 53.
visited the place described by all, travelled north to Kharga village and there found
certain rock-drawingsnot the main sitedescribed by Schweinfurth. The long journey from
the Nile valley to Dish and from there to harga produced meagre results. The main roa
from harga to Dakhla, the Ghubari Road, leads through a promising broken country. any
hills, particularly those north of the road, show faint traces of engravings. The sand-wind
coming from the north has eroded them. Finally, near Dakhla I found sandstone hills covere

with drawings of a quite unusual type and importance.

did not continue my researches in the north and south andwest of Dakhlaasis. Probably
there are more rock-drawings there. native of Qasrin the west of the oasis told me that in th

mountains near his town there are paintings on the rock.

reached the Gilfel-ebir and Uwnat by car. From these places rock-paintings
-drawings have been reported by the following explorers:

an

L. . sy,

Rcentes Explorations dans le Dsert Libyque (19321936).

ublications
Royale
de la Socit
de Gographie dEgypte (Cairo, 1936).
R. . oNoLo, Libyan Sands (London, 1935), 20911.
R. . NN, istoric Problems of the Libyan Desert. The Geographical Journal, 8
(1934), 45663.

. , Gravures rupestres du Dsert Libygue identiques a celles des anciens 8h

L'Anthropologie, 36 (1926), 1257. (n engravings published from Uwnat by Hassanein
1. , Le Pitture preistoriche di Ain D (). Archivio per TAntrop
logiae la Etnologia 63 (1933), 27582.
1. c . Gzios, Le Pitture rupestre di Ain D (El A). on Pr
fazione dell n. Prof. . . entro di Studi Coloniali (Florenz, 1934).
. . ssANN , rossing the Untraversed Libyan Desert. he National Geographi

agazine, 46 (1924), 23378.

. . ssNEN y, The Lost ases (London, 1925), 2035.
L. FNus, Ekade Ektab. Die Felsbilder Fezzans (Leipzig, 1937).
Nc , -DN et . , Les Gravures Rupestres du Djebel t. Revu

Scientifique Illustre, 66 (1928), 10517.

. W. G. J. PN, The Gilf Kebir. The Geographic Journal, 83 (1934), 449-56.
W. . NNy Sw, The Mountain of "Uleinat. Antiquity, 8 (1934), 6372.
W. . NNy Sw, Rock-paintings in the Libyan Desert. Antiquity, 10 (1936), 175

. . WINL, Early

Ethnology of the Libyan Desert as illinated by Pictures of the S

Robert Mond Rock-drawing Collection. This paper will appear in the transactions of the congre
of Saharanarchaeologists held at Paris in the summer of 1938.

Uwnat I collected the engravings and paintings on the rocks in the north-easter
way back
duarter of the massif, starting from our base-camp in the urkur Ih. n the
Dakhla I visited the site discovered by Shaw in the Southern Gilf. Unfortunately
was mys
unable to survey the Wadi Sora ('wadi of the pictures", we should more correctly call it Wa
by the Cairo newspaper
es-Suwar) in the Western Gilf. An expedition sent out in 1934

hram visited

Uwnat and the Western Gilf. . de ller copied many of the paintings