recorded in Almásy’s book The Unknown Sahara
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The Cave of Swimmers is a prehistoric rock art site in Egypt’s Libyan Desert, famed for its Neolithic-era paintings of human figures that appear to be swimming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| recorded in Almásy’s book The Unknown Sahara canonical | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
prehistoric rock art site ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Cave of the Swimmers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateAge |
about 10,000 years old
ⓘ
early Holocene ⓘ |
| authorOfPrimaryAccount | László Almásy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateContext | now hyper-arid Sahara ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| culturalAttribution | prehistoric North African hunter-gatherers ⓘ |
| depicts |
animals
ⓘ
human figures ⓘ swimming humans ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | László Almásy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| documentedIn | The Unknown Sahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| earlierEnvironment | former lake or water-rich landscape ⓘ |
| featuredIn | film adaptation of The English Patient ⓘ |
| hasAccessDifficulty | remote desert location ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSignificance |
evidence of early human activity in Gilf Kebir
ⓘ
evidence of past wetter climate in Sahara ⓘ |
| hasArtPeriod |
Holocene
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neolithic ⓘ |
| hasArtTechnique | pigment painting ⓘ |
| hasArtworkType |
rock art
ⓘ
rock paintings ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | fragile rock art ⓘ |
| hasFigureStyle | schematic human figures ⓘ |
| hasGeologicalSetting | sandstone cliff ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | figures that appear to be swimming ⓘ |
| hasResearchField |
Saharan archaeology
ⓘ
palaeoclimatology ⓘ rock art studies ⓘ |
| inspired | novel The English Patient NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gilf Kebir plateau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Libyan Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Desert of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Egypt–Libya border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | The Unknown Sahara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southwestern Egypt ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
natural erosion
ⓘ
tourist impact ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: recorded in Almásy’s book The Unknown Sahara Description of subject: The Cave of Swimmers is a prehistoric rock art site in Egypt’s Libyan Desert, famed for its Neolithic-era paintings of human figures that appear to be swimming.
Referenced by (1)
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