Murals in the Sahara desert reflect the way of life of prehistoric people.

There are thousands of painted and carved patterns in Tahiri's rock paintings. Most murals show that the Sahara desert was once a paradise with abundant water plants and flocks of cattle and sheep.

The earliest murals can be traced back to the Middle Stone Age, about 10000 years ago, and the latest murals belong to works around A.D., which lasted nearly ten thousand years. Murals in different times have different themes and contents, different styles, some scribbled, some rigorous, some immature, some simple and colorful, recording the activities of blacks, French whites, Libyans, Tuareg people and other ethnic groups here.

The oldest pictures in rock paintings were drawn by prehistoric people who lived from 8000 BC to 6000 BC. The brushwork is immature, depicting some crimson figures. The figures are extremely asymmetrical, with big and round heads and thin legs and arms like reeds. They may be painted by black people who hunt and gather for a living, because there are tattoos and masked people in rock paintings, and this custom is exactly the same as that of black people.

In the cave, there is a picture of a 5.5-meter-high giant with two hands, a round head and shrugged shoulders. There seems to be four pieces of metal on his head. His face has no nose and his eyes are crooked, just like Picasso's works. Because thousands of other mural designs are not very freehand, only this giant image is particularly abstract, and Lott is puzzled, so he named it "Mars God".

Swiss dreamer von Denken thinks that Mars God is obviously an alien wearing either a spacesuit or a diving suit and a spherical helmet with an antenna on his head. In fact, what looks like a helmet and an antenna is actually a headscarf decorated with feathers. Moreover, the figure painting on the uneven rock surface is not necessarily neatly drawn vertically, so Danny's speculation that it is a cosmic person is also far-fetched.

Headless figures and grotesque objects abound in the rock paintings of this period, and there are similar pictures in the early Neolithic sites in Anatolia Plateau of West Asia, but most of them can't be explained.

During this period, there were scenes of weddings, banquets and circumcision ceremonies. A group of people gathered around a man with a "magic wand" to find water. In addition, several children are sleeping under blankets, a group of women are building an arbor, a man is shaking a drunk to wake him up, and a dog is barking ... These vivid pastoral scenes reproduce the quiet and peaceful daily life of Saharan residents in the past.

From about 5000 BC to about 4000 BC, there were scenes of grazing cattle and sheep, semi-circular houses, dancers, wars and daily life in Tashli rock paintings. There are also many hunting pictures, from driving away birds and animals to shooting prey with bows and arrows, which are reflected in rock paintings. The painting style is completely realistic, the composition is ingenious and the colors are bright.

It is speculated that these rock paintings were painted by Farbai people who still live in the south of the Sahara desert, because their hairstyles, hats, weapons, residences and polygamy are the same. When the Sahara was rich in pastures, they migrated from East Africa with cattle. During this period, Tahiri's painting art reached its peak.

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