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9,000-year-old rock art of people swimming in what's now the arid Sahara

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A series of rock paintings depicting a group of people swimming were found in the Gilf Kebir plateau in Egypt 's Western Desert .

The paintings were made between 6,000 and 9,000 years ago .

Researchers think the paintings offer a glimpse of what daily life would have looked like before the region became a desert.