Rock paintings under granite overhangs, made somewhere between 5,500 and 4,500 years ago, and in a state of preservation that is hard to credit: the pigment is still strong because the overhangs have kept the weather off them for five thousand years. The paintings are of cattle, long-horned and dressed in ceremonial regalia, standing with human figures, plus a domesticated dog, several other canids and a giraffe. People living nearby had known about them for centuries. A French archaeological team documented them in November and December 2002 and came back in November 2003 to study them properly, and that is when the rest of the world found out. Near Hargeisa, in Somaliland, a self-declared state internationally recognised as part of Somalia.
Marodi Jeh, Somaliland
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