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Magharet el Kantara

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Magharet el Kantara or Shaw's Cave (, arched cave) is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. Located on the south-western slopes of Gilf Kebir, it was discovered in 1935 by the explorers Bill Kennedy Shaw and Rupert Harding Newman.Bill Kennedy Shaw, Rock Paintings in the Libyan Desert. In: Antiquity, a quarterly review of world archaeology, ISSN 0003-598X, V. 10, 38 (1936), pp. 175–178. Read more on Wikipedia

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