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Gebel al-Teir

Gebel al-Teir, Mountain of the Birds, an outlier mountain. is located 8 kilometers (5 miles) north of Qasr Kharga. Along its southern side it is 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) long, 1 kilometer 0.6 miles) wide, and 319 meters (1,020 feet) above sea level. On its northern side it is 5 kilometers ( 3 miles) long and 600 meters (1,920 feet) high.
Gebel al-Teir is a true wilderness. It is the home of foxes, wild dogs, snakes, including the deadly horned viper, and a lot fossils. Because of the quarrying roads that have been created recently, a trip into the wadis of Rock inscriptions at Gebel al-Teir.
Gebel al-Teir is complicated and should not be undertaken without a local guide.
Located abut 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) north of Bagawat in one of the wadis of Gebel al-Teir are three different sets of rock inscriptions and graffiti covering a time span from prehistory to this century. The first set of graffiti is on the eastern façade of mountain, at the very entrance to the wadi. Hunters with bows and arrows, giraffes, gazelles, a boat, ancient Egyptian gods, and Demotic, Greek, Coptic, and Arabic script collide in a topsy-turvy jumble of writing and drawing in this timewarp motel, a billboard still in use after thousands of years.
The second set is located 155 meters (496 feet) further into the wadi along the same side. Here in addition to more of the same, we have a great deal of hieroglyphic writing and inscriptions to the ancient Egyptian gods. Located across the wadi from an ancient stone quarry, this site was heavily inscribed during Pharaonic times.
The third set of inscriptions, mostly Coptic, is harder to reach. On the western side, a path leads to the top of the mountain through a grotto. Here Coptic paintings, prayers, and invocations dating from the fourth, fifth, and tenth centuries are the dominant motif. There is also Demotic and Greek script. Most of these inscriptions, often identified by a cross, were left by the hermits who lived in these caves.
At the top of the mountain is the Cave of Mary, which must have been a revered place during the Christian era, is a painting of the Madonna and Child and a prayer in alternating red and yellow lines.