Anthropology And Archaeology

Artifacts used and discovered throughout the ages of mankind.
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The Ennedi Plateau, located in the North-East of Chad, in the Ennedi Region, is a sandstone bulwark in the middle of the Sahara. Two sets, designed and engraved by Jean Pheulpin, were issued by Chad. Here is the first set issued on December 19, 1967:

The Rosetta stone...
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For many years translating hieroglyphics had been a virtual impossibility until one day a tablet of stone was found In July 1799, the stone was discovered in the city of Rosetta (modern el Rashid) by French soldiers during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Rosetta was located on a tributary of the Nile near the Mediterranean coast east of Alexandria.

A decree written in 3 separate languages had been used : hieroglyphics, demotic and ancient Greek text.

The fact that ancient Greek could be understood meant that the stone could be used to decipher the previous unknown hieroglyphs that had also been used.





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

France 1979 Tourism
Paintings at Cave of Niaux (17,000 to 11,000 years ago, Magdalenian culture)

France 2006 Cave Paintings
Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,000 years ago) paintings in Rouffignac Cave, Dordogne

Monaco 1989 Rock Carvings in the Mercantour National Park
The stamp set features Bronze Age petroglyphs found on rock outcrops within Vallée des Merveilles.

Romania 2001 XX Century
The stamp marks the discovery of drawings from Chauvet Cave in Ardeche, France (Aurignacian period, 37,000 to 28,000 years ago).

France 1968 Prehistoric Cave of Lascaux
Stamp and maximum card

Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015 Lascaux Cave 75 Years of Discovery
The stamp features painting of a hunting scene (Paleolithic) from Lascaux Cave in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.

Italy 2009 World Heritage
The stamp depicts rock drawings in Valle Camonica which holds the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world. Most of the drawings were made during Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Spain 2001 World Heritage of Humanity
Paintings at the Barranc de la Valltorta site in Castellón-Castelló (Neolitic, 7000 to 4500 years ago)

Spain 2015 World Heritage of Humanity
Steppe Bison – cave painting of Altamira, Cantabria (Paleolithic)

Portugal 1998 Archaeological Park of Côa Valley
Spain 2021 World Heritage of Humanity
Both stamps depict Paleolithic rock carvings in the UNESCO Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde.

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It also issued with circular engraved stamp shows the same painting:

The land of the Pharaohs.
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The Pharaohs of Egypt.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs




The tombs of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt......
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http://myweb.usf.edu/~liottan/tombs...ntegypt.html






The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, 100 years ago.
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Howard Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Wikipedia