Ancient Rock Carvings Depicting Masked People Discovered in Egypt

The image, discovered recently by archaeologists, provides a tantalizing glimpse of Egypt's Neolithic period, or Stone Age.It likely dates back to the latter half of the fourth millennium B.C., said Ludwig Morenz, an Egyptologist at the University of Bonn in Germany.The depiction of a masked dancer in this era is particularly fascinating, Morenz told Live Science.