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    Gilf Kebir (جلف كبير) (var. Gilf al-Kebir, Jilf al Kabir, Gilf Kebir Plateau) is a plateau in the New Valley Governorate of the remote southwest corner...
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  • Look up GILF in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gilf may refer to: Gilf Kebir, a plateau in the New Valley Governorate of the remote southwest corner...
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  • Gilf Kebir National Park (GKNP) (Arabic: محمية الجلف الكبير) is a national park located in the remote and hyper-arid New Valley Governorate, Egypt. Established...
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    Wadi Hamra (Arabic: الوادي الحمراء, red valley) is a valley of Gilf Kebir, in New Valley Governorate in the extreme south-west of Egypt. It is known for...
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    Sora in the Gilf Kebir. In the spring of 1934 Almásy led an expedition organised by the Royal Egyptian Automobile Club to the Gilf Kebir and Jebel Uweinat...
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    The Cave of Swimmers is a cave with ancient rock art in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. It is located in the...
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    endorheic region, with no rivers draining into or out of the desert. The Gilf Kebir plateau reaches an altitude of just over 1,000 m (3,300 feet), and along...
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    from the Arabic word for "large", and also from its location near the Gilf Kebir ("Great Barrier") region in southwest Egypt. Based solely on their interpretations...
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    Beasts in southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya, in the mountainous Gilf Kebir region of the Sahara Desert. The Cave of Swimmers was discovered in October...
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    Tassili n'Ajjer Tibesti Ennedi Messak Tadrart Sabu-Jaddi Adrar Plateau Gilf Kebir Saharan rock art is a significant area of archaeological study focusing...
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    Sefar, Tin Tazarift, Jabbaren) Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir, Rock Art of Jebel Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir plateau ("Cave of Swimmers") Upper Brandberg, The...
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    area of the country. Its highest elevation is 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in the Gilf Kebir plateau to the far south-west of the country, on the Egypt-Sudan-Libya...
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    shelter is located in the Wadi Sura at the south-western foot of the Gilf Kebir Mountains in the remote south-western corner of Egypt’s New Valley Governorate...
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    Diversity Web. Photo sequence of Cerastes cerastes feeding in the wild (Gilf Kebir, Egypt, 27 October 2004) at FJ Expeditions accessed 19 October 2013 Boulenger...
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    Reconnaissance of the Gilf Kebir by the Late Sir Robert Clayton East Clayton" and P. A. Clayton, "The Western Side of the Gilf Kebir" Geographical Journal...
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    Thamaniyat Ajras (Arabic: ثمانية أجراس) is a topographic outlier of the Gilf Kebir plateau in the extreme southwestern corner of Egypt. The site, a NW–SE...
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  • Jean-Paul (2006). "An extended field of crater-shaped structures in the Gilf Kebir region, Egypt: Observations and hypotheses about their origin". Journal...
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    Editions. He made the first topographic maps of the national park of the Gilf Kebir and of the White desert. Since 2000, he collaborated with the American...
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    shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. It is located on the south-eastern slopes of Gilf Kebir, 40 m to the south...
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    Gilf Kebir Cave of Beasts Cave of Swimmers Magharet el Kantara Cave of Archers Wadi Hamra...
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    1007/978-1-4020-9726-3_4. ISBN 978-1-4020-9725-6. Walker, Stephen (8 October 2013). "Gilf Kebir". Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey. Retrieved 20 December 2013. Hughesm...
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    One well-known such petroglyph location is the Cave of Swimmers in the Gilf Kebir mountains of Egypt; other well known sites are the Gabal El Uweinat mountains...
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    Djibouti National Park Yoboki National Park Gabal Elba National Park Gilf Kebir National Park Lake Burullus Protectorate Lake Qarun Protectorate Nabq...
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    4000–7000 BCE fossil from Abu Ballas Stufenmland and a 5000 BCE fossil from Gilf Kebir. Apart from these, fossils have also been excavated from Mittleres Wadi...
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    cave-paintings in Japan show a sport similar to sumo wrestling. In Wadi Sura, near Gilf Kebir in Libya, a Neolithic rock painting in the cave of swimmers shows evidence...
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    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...
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  • Clayton expedition reconnaissance flights discovered two valleys in the Gilf Kebir. In the following year, Almásy found the third of the "Zerzura" wadis...
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    verification] Neolithic Rock art found at the cave of swimmers in Wadi Sura, near Gilf Kebir in Egypt shows evidence of swimming and archery being practiced around...
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    explorer László Almásy in a remote cave in Wadi Sura, in the south of the Gilf Kebir Plateau, Egypt. Almásy believed the figures to illustrate swimming, and...
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  • P.A. Clayton by Peter Clayton P. A. Clayton, "The Western Side of the Gilf Kebir" Geographical Journal 81, 254–259, (1933) Libyan Sands, Travel in a Dead...
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