They drove quadrigas,
worshipped Ra and built
pyramids...before the
Egyptians?
Garamantes...From late
2011, the name of this
ancient people settled in
Libya shook off the desert
dust and resounded in commentaries about lost civilizations.
The reason was to be found in a
discovery, thanks to new aerial and
satellite photographs of over a hundred fortified villages hidden under
the unforgiving sands of Eastern
Sahara.
Actually, the authors of the discovery did know where to look. Not
in vain, several sites associated
to this civilization have been dug
since the 30’s of the past century
and, more recently, after 1997.
However, the armed conflict that
ended with the defenestration of
Colonel Gadaffi and his regime, had
kept in suspension - for obvious
reasons - any archeological activity in the region. During his life,
the dictator never really paid much
attention - or help - to the research
of the historical past of his country.
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