Study ecosystem from ancient Egyptian paintings

About 6 millennia ago, there were about 37 large mammal mammals that once roamed the deserts and river valleys that now lie in the territory of Egypt.

However, there are only 8 species remaining in the territory of Egypt, and the new research results show that the art of ancient Egyptians helped to tell the story of the disappearance of ecological carpet in the North. Africa.

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Among the animals described in the prehistoric Egypt paintings, ie the period before 3,100 BC, experts from the University of Bristol (England) counted that there were lions, wild dogs, elephants, types of antelopes, giraffes.

Besides artistic value, these paintings also act as scientific documents, in addition to fossil evidence obtained in the area.

Based on valuable data, researchers have created a detailed timeline of ecology, whereby extinction cases have a chain effect in the biological community, according to the PNAS report. .

'Once a rich and diverse mammal community is now extremely different,' said team leader Justin Yeakel.

As the number of animals decreases, especially small-size herbivores, the predators that depend on them are also severely affected and disappear with the extinction of those species.