Inscribed :1982 Criteria: C (i) (iii); N (ii) (iii)

Justification for Inscription:
Report of the 6th Session of the Committee

Brief description:
Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal migrations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 6000 B.C. to the first centuries of the present era. The geologicalawormations are of outstanding scenic interest, with eroded sandstones forming 'forests of rock'.