Map of the Tassili, boundaries and main regions, 57 x 78 cm (scale 1: 1,000,000) Disclaimer The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its ...

Tassili n´Ajjer National Park sprawls across nearly 50,000 square miles of the Sahara Desert. Westend61/Getty Images Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly ...

Tassili n´Ajjer National Park sprawls across nearly 50,000 square miles of the Sahara Desert. - Westend61/Getty Images Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly ...

T ASSILI N’AJJER NATIONAL PARK, Algeria —. Some 10,000 years ago, Stone Age hunter-gatherers used the majestic rock formations of what is today a remote corner of the Sahara as their canvas.

Some 10,000 years ago, when glaciers chilled northern Europe, the Sahara desert was a fertile, well-watered land. Among the most favored parts of it must have been the Tassili-N-Ajjer, a plateau ...

The art of change. The rock art in Tassili n’Ajjer tracks the climatic shifts that were to follow. As the region’s weather patterns evolved, so did its human society.

This is Tassili n’Ajjer, or the Plateau of Rivers, a landscape once carved by water, now sculpted by wind. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and Algerian national park, ...

Tassili n´Ajjer National Park sprawls across nearly 50,000 square miles of the Sahara Desert. Westend61/Getty Images Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly ...