- The
Garamantes (Ancient Gr****: Γαράμαντες, romanized:
Garámantes; Latin:
Garamantes) were
ancient peoples, who may have
descended from
Berber tribes,...
- the
Garamantes,
arose around 500 BCE in the
heart of the Sahara, in a
valley that is now
called the Wadi al-Ajal in Fezzan, Libya. The
Garamantes built...
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empire for two and half centuries. The
Garamantes also
engaged in the trans-Saharan
slave trade. The
Garamantes used
slaves in
their own
communities to...
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archaeological site in Libya. It was the
capital of the
Garamantian Kingdom. The
Garamantes were a
Saharan Berber people living in the
Fezzan in the northeastern...
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referred to the
Troglodytae in his
Histories as
being a
people hunted by the
Garamantes in Libya. He said that the
Troglodytae were the
swiftest runners of all...
- wagons. In the 5th
century BCE,
Herodotus reported use of
chariots by
Garamantes in the
Saharan region of
North Africa. In the 1st
century CE,
Strabo reported...
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peoples such as the Mauri, Masaesyli, M****yli, Musulamii, Gaetuli, and
Garamantes gave rise to
Berber kingdoms, such as
Numidia and Mauretania.
Other kingdoms...
- from
Libyan Sabratha and with ten
thousand legionaries conquered the
Garamantes capital in Fezzan. He then sent a
small group of his
legionaries further...
- and the
Garamantes at this time – no
doubt as a
result of Flaccus's
success – made his way from
Leptis Magna through the land of the
Garamantes to the...
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region of
Tunisia and
Southern Tripolitania. They were
bordered by the
Garamantes people to the east and were
under the
coastal Libyes people. The coastal...
