MALLERY. | PETROGLYPHS IN ALGERIA. 179 
and at Moghar on a hard compact calcareous stone. At Moghar the designs are 
more complicated than those at Tyout. An attempt has been made to render ideas 
by more learned processes; to the simplicity of the line, the artlessness of the poses 
which are seen at Tyout, there are added at Moghar academic attitudes difficult to 
render, and which must be intended to represent some custom or ceremony in use 
among the peoples who then inhabited this country. The costume at Moghar is also 
more complicated. The ornaments of the head recall those of Indians, and the 
woman’s dress is composed of a waist and a short skirt fastened by a girdle with 
flowing ends. All this is very decent and elegant for the period. The infant at the 
side is swaddled. The large crouching figure is the face view of a man who seems 
to be bearing his wife on his shoulders. At the right of this group is a giraffe or 
large antelope. In the composition above may be distinguished a solitary indi- 
vidual in a crouching attitude, seen in front, the arms crossed in the attitude of 
prayer or astonishment. The animals which figure in the designs at Moghar are 
cattle and partridges. The little quadruped seated on its haunches may be a ger- 
boise (kind of rat), very common in these parts. 
In the inscriptions at Tyout we easily recognize the elephant, Jong since extinct 
in these regions, but neither horse nor camel is seen, probably not having been yet 
imported into the Sahara country. 
Fic. 140.— Petroglyphs at Tyout, Algeria. 
EGYPT. 
While the picture-writings of Egypt are too voluminous for present 
discussion and fortunately are thoroughly presented in accessible pub- 
lications, it seems necessary to mention the work of the late Mrs. A. 
B. Edwards (a). She gives a good account of the petroglyphs on the 
rocks bounding the ancient river bed of the Nile below Phil, which 
show their employment in a manner similar to that in parts of North 
America: 
These inscriptions, together with others found in the adjacent quarries, range over 
a period of between three and four thousand years, beginning with the early reigns 
