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Photo credit :By Roberto D’Angelo licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) In fact, the province of Fezzan garners a myriad of other proofs that do nothing but go deeper into the mysteries surrounding this society. We refer in particular, to the very ancient cave paintings and thousands of tombs -pyramids included - which pepper this region. In an area of approximately 500 square kilometers, on the outskirts of the great valley of Wadi al-Hayat, archeologists have discovered numerous paintings in caves and rocky places; graffiti which helps us to understand a little better the 15 “The drawings are between 20,000 and 12,000 years old” hidd e n details of these people. The dating of the drawings is not simple, but it is believed that they are between 20,000 and 12,000 years old. As we had mentioned