The Kitum Cave is located in Kenya. Two European visitors contracted Marburg virus there during the 1980s. It is one of five named “elephant caves” of Mount Elgon where animals, including elephants, mine the rock for its sodium-rich salts. Kitum Cave is located in Mount Elgon National Park, Kenya.
In Iroungou Cave in Gabon (Western Africa), archeologists discovered a mass grave containing at least 80 bodies and two skeletons.
Abanda Caves are a cave complex in Gabon, located in the upstream of Fernan Vaz Lagoon. They were first mentioned by Dr. Marco Marti and Claude Werotte in the early 2000s, and fully explored during several caving expeditions by Oslisly, Testa, Sebag and Shirley. Abanda Caves are now famous for the Abanda Caves Artifacts, archeological […]
Who doesn’t love a good cave? Sof Omar Caves is the longest cave in Ethiopia at 15.1 kilometres (9.4 mi) long. When surveyed in 1972, it was the longest cave in Africa.
The Cave of Swimmers is a cave with ancient rock art in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. The Cave of Swimmers was first brought to popular attention by David Roberts’ book, The Cave Painters. The Cave’s name derives from the images found within it that show people […]
Shaw’s Cave or Magharet el Kantara is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt.
Long before the pyramids took shape on the Nile, long before Egypt was even a unified nation, ancient hunters painted hundreds of pictures of hunting expeditions in Cave of Beasts. The Cave of Beasts is a huge natural rock shelter in the Western Desert of Egypt featuring Neolithic rock paintings, more than 7,000 years old, […]
The Thysville Caves are a cave complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located near the town of Thysville. Thysville has a large population and is close to Mbanza-Ngungu (formerly Thysville).
Matupi Cave is a cave in the Matupi Hills of the Mount Hoyo massif, one of the hills of the Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Matupi means ‘the rain god’ and Matupi Hill, or Matopi Hill, has a large number of waterfalls, hence Matupi Cave. It holds special significance to the local people […]
Rhino Cave is located at the North end of the Female Hill and has two main walls where paintings are located. Rhino Cave is named for a white rhino painting on its north wall, which itself is split down the middle by another painting of a red giraffe.
