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    • Day 253
    • Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 7:42 AM
    • ☀️ 9 °C
    • Altitude: 1,039 m
    • Saudi ArabiaTaymā’27°11’36” N  39°42’30” E
    Hunters with guns. Was this the end of the teaming wildlife of this desert?
    Early Morning chillWe arrive at a permenant water hole where caravans have passed for centuries....and a new image appears, GUNS! See on rightAntilopes being confronted by dogsLarge herd of antilopesThe first ostriches!A whole herd of ostrichesHunter with gun shooting at flying birdsBeautiful Orynx, now only living in captivityHunters with guns everywhere!Two men from Sudan walking to the spring to fill up waterLater on we passed their camp

    A different era of Rock engravings

    March 21, 2023 in Saudi Arabia ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

    Today we passed a water spring in full desert. This was surely a stop over for caravans on the "incense route" over centuries and so the rock engravings have changed. Accompanying the old cuneiform writing we see Greek letters. Also the motifs have changed with Hunters with guns appearing. In the period BC, documents mention teeming wildlife in the desert. Could the guns have been the end of this wildlife?Read more

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