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Young hunters discovering ancient ancestral paintings inside a sacred cave in Puntland Somalia

The Forbidden Cave of Puntland

In the northeastern region of Somalia, where the land shifts between rocky plateaus, dry valleys, and coastal winds from the Indian Ocean, lies Puntland, a place where oral tradition and history are deeply intertwined with the landscape. Among pastoral communities in this region, caves are not seen as empty spaces carved into stone. They are considered memory places. Some are

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