This site is the “gallery” that accompanies the Rock Art sections of a sister site:  The Archaeology of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, which can be found at www.wadi.cd2.com.  I will not attempt to duplicate, here, the data contained on that site, so if you are interested in finding out more, please refer to that site.

If you have come to the site from the sister page, you will know that I hope to integrate the images on this site into the sister pages in the not too distant future.

If you have come to this site without having been directed from its sister page, this page is devoted entirely to rock art from Egypt. The Eastern Desert forms a band of desert and wadis that carve through the Red Sea Hills, running parallel to the Nile, on the western coast of the Red Sea. The rock art is a matter of engravings made into dark rock surfaces, penetrating lighter layers beneath and providing an ideal canvas for simple depictions. To find out more about the Eastern Desert and the archaeology and rock art that it contains, please visit the above site.

The three sites here (excluding the First Cataract sites) are a tiny sample of the vast numbers of wadis and sites that are represented in the Eastern Desert.  For anyone wishing to gain a much better photographic insight, please see Morrow and Morrow 2002 and Rohls 2000 (both referenced on the above site).  Other online photographic resources are available, which are listed on the Links page on the above site.

To see the photographs for each of the sites, click on the links on the above menu bar.