Editing Addax (section)

==History and fossil record==
In ancient times, the addax occurred from northern Africa through [[Arabia]] and the [[Levant]]. Pictures in a tomb, dating back to 2500 BCE, show at least the partial domestication of the addax by the ancient Egyptians. These pictures show addax and some other antelopes tied with ropes to stakes. The number of addax captured by a person were considered an indicator of his high social and economic position in the society.<ref name=iwe/> The ''[[pygarg]]'' ("white-buttocked") beast mentioned in [[Deuteronomy]] 14:5 is believed by [[Henry Baker Tristram]] to have been an addax. But today, excess poaching has resulted in the extinction of this species in Egypt since the 1960s.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Manilus|first=N.|title=Historical ecology and biogeography of the addax in Egypt|journal=Israel Journal of Zoology|year=2000|volume=46|issue=4|pages=261–71|doi=10.1560/H4XC-Y7PP-T1D9-014B}}</ref>

Addax fossils have been found in four sites of [[Egypt]] – a 7000 BCE fossil from the [[Great Sand Sea]], a 5000–6000 BCE fossil from Djara, a 4000–7000 BCE fossil from Abu Ballas Stufenmland and a 5000 BCE fossil from Gilf Kebir. Apart from these, fossils have also been excavated from Mittleres Wadi Howar (6300 BCE fossil), and Pleistocene fossils from Grotte Neandertaliens, Jebel Irhoud and Parc d'Hydra.<ref name=Krausman2007/>