Agrour Amogjar Moutains are a 690m high peaking housing 5000 years old rock painting of African Wildlife. The site is located in the Adrar plateau within the Sahara Desert of Central Mauritania. The Sahara was once a fertile region. In fact, the name Agrour Amogjar is said to mean "Farm of the Mountain" which takes us back to an era where the Sahara region was green and populated.

Agrour Amogjar Mountains

At its mountaintop, called Aghour Aghajer, lie a series of six caves where a total of 24 rock paintings have been found. Paintings of humans, camels, and cows are displayed on the walls, although partially eroded now.

Rock and cave paintings can be found in many regions on the continent of Africa. In Algeria, for instance, the vast plateau of Tassili n'Ajjer in Southeast Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km has more than 15,000 drawings and engravings. 

Tassili N'Ajjer National Park

They record 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. 

Rock painting in Tassili N'Ajjer

In the Huns Mountains of South Western Namibia is the oldest rock painting dating back 30,000 years. It comprises seven stone slabs depicting a variety of animals painted in charcoal, ochre and white. These images are not easily identifiable to species level but thought to be felines and/or bovids.

Oldest Rock Painting in Namibia
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