Stunning attention to detail on what remains of this engraved camel’s face.
The eyelids feel heavy, the stone eye somehow shows emotion. Someone went to great lengths to memorialise this particular animal thousands of years ago in northern Saudi Arabia.
The eyelids feel heavy, the stone eye somehow shows emotion. Someone went to great lengths to memorialise this particular animal thousands of years ago in northern Saudi Arabia.
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That they are likely wild camels is 🤯 since precious little evidence of the camel before domestication has survived https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/rock-art-tradition-of-lifesized-naturalistic-engravings-of-camels-in-northern-arabia-new-insights-on-the-mobility-of-neolithic-populations-in-the-nafud-desert/3244F2D1BE6929258FCEF681250675A1