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) Geographical | August 1, 2007| | COPYRIGHT 2007 Circle Publishing Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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.'

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