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The Garamantes masters of the Sahara: the Garamantes of Libya have been dismissed by everyone from the Romans to 20th-century scholars as irrelevant desert pastoralists and nomads. But now, new research has revealed that they had a sophisticated civilisation and represented one of the most powerful kingdoms in North Africa.(LIBYAN ARCHAEOLOGY)
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August 1, 2007|
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After five years of meticulous digging, uncovering ten layers of buildings in the Saharan town of Garama--which was inhabited between 400 BC and 1937--Professor David Mattingly and his team made a dramatic and unexpected discover)'. 'In the town's extraordinary 2,500-year-history,' Mattingly explains, 'what stands out is that the period of the Garamantian civilisation was the time of greatest material wellbeing; the Garamantes ate better than most subsequent inhabitants and had a wider range of locally manufactured and imported goods.'
The team's findings are at odds with the ...
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