Cult of the Gods in Pre-Egyptian Society

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Researchers study the staging of religion on thousands of years old rock images

Rock image - with ruler boat procession, ca. 3200 BC, Wadi al Agebab. © Photo: M
Rock image - with ruler boat procession, ca. 3200 BC, Wadi al Agebab. © Photo: Mohamed Abdel Hay Abu Baker .
The desert in southern Egypt is filled with hundreds of petroglyphs and inscriptions dating from the Neolithic to the Arab period. The oldest date from the fifth millennium B.C., and few have been studied. Egyptologists at the University of Bonn and Aswan University now want to systematically record the rock paintings and document them in a database. Among them, a rock painting more than 5,000 years old depicting a boat being pulled by 25 men on a rope stands out in particular. 

"This cultural treasure in the northeast of Aswan has been largely undocumented, let alone published," says Egyptologist Ludwig Morenz of the University of Bonn. ...
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