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Photo credit :Talessman at the English language Wikipedia,licensed under GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Before being forced to abandon Libya in February of 2011, Mattingly and his team had already made outstanding discoveries, such as the ruins of a fortress with walls reaching four meters high, numerous houses, cemeteries, wells, channels and irrigation systems. But we ask: how can we reproach ourselves for not knowing about these lost kingdoms when even the majority of Libyans had not been told about its existence? Therefore, to start, the best approach would be to locate the Garamantes in their space and time in history. Something which, as we will see next, is not an easy task. 7 Near East in 600 AD, showing the location of Garamantes before the Arab conquest.