World Heritage Identification Number: 179
World Heritage since: 1982
Category: Mixed Cultural Heritage and Natural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇩🇿 Algeria
Continent: Africa
UNESCO World Region: Arab States
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Exploring the Prehistoric Art of Tassili n'Ajjer: A Unique UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range, situated in the heart of the Sahara Desert, spans over 72,000 square miles (28,000 square kilometers) of southeastern Algeria. This extraordinary landscape, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, boasts some of the most significant prehistoric cave art found worldwide.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
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 BC to the first centuries of the present era. The geological formations are of outstanding scenic interest, with eroded sandstones forming ‘forests of rock’.
Encyclopedia Record: Tassili n'Ajjer
Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range in the Sahara desert, located in south-eastern Algeria. It holds one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world and covers an area of more than 72,000 km2 (28,000 sq mi).Additional Site Details
Area: 7,200,000 hectares
(iii) — Unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition
(vii) — Contains superlative natural phenomena or beauty
(viii) — Outstanding example representing major earth stages
Coordinates: 25.5 , 9
