"A rock art panel discovered at Wadi Khamila, South Sinai, last year sheds new light on the origins of Egyptian colonization of the region. Dating to around 3000 B.C., the central image of the rock tableau is a striding man with raised arms in a sort of bicep flex posture over a kneeling man with his arms tied behind his back and an arrow in his chest. Behind him is a boat, a symbol of Egyptian rulership."
"The southwestern Sinai has some of the earliest images and inscriptions depicting Egyptian military and economic control over a subjugated local population. The earliest named ruler of Egypt, predynastic king of Upper Egypt Iry Hor, features in the inscription of the earliest known smiting scene (32nd century B.C.) found in southwestern Sinai. Egyptian rulers sent regular expeditions to the region to exploit its rich raw material resources in the Pre/Proto and Early Dynastic periods and during the Old Kingdom."
A rock art panel at Wadi Khamila in South Sinai dated to around 3000 B.C. depicts a striding Egyptian with raised arms over a kneeling, bound man pierced by an arrow, with a boat symbol behind. The tableau parallels other southwestern Sinai panels that record Egyptian military and economic control and add a fourth known site to those at Wadi Ameyra, Wadi Humur and Maghara. Predynastic inscriptions, including a smiting scene naming Iry Hor, show regular Egyptian expeditions to exploit rich raw materials during Pre/Proto, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. The imagery records resource-driven colonization and the subjugation of local populations lacking centralized socio-political structures.
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