I heart that this engraving (claimed to be found in the North African desert) is false and doesn't exist in real:
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
yes it's a fake done by some of Heneri Lhote's crew...
Posted by Mazigh (Member # 8621) on :
Why did he do that? To be famous or had he another purposes?
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
No he didn't do that himself but some members of his crew did unbeknownst to him.
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
LOL You could easily tell it was faked if you know about authentic Saharan rock art! Seriously, I don't know how some experts fell for it in the first place.
Posted by alTakruri (Member # 10195) on :
Covered it a few times. Some of Lhote's crew were having one on him. Lhote removed the fake from all subsequent revisions/reprints of The Search for the Tassili Frescoes.
Apparently crew members were goading Lhote toward Egypt's direction for Algerian/Libyan art. People are still very eager to lay non-Egyptian Africa as just an echo of Egypt or wanderings from Egypt or what have you.
The problem is how can we sure what else was faked? I think some style periods are full of fakes (ibid). The art in some cases is just too good to be true.
