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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: A major group from Libya that settled Crete were the Garamante. Robert Graves in (Vol.1, pp.33-35) maintains that the Garamante who originally lived in the Fezzan fused with the inhabitants of the Upper Niger region of West Africa. [/QUOTE]the Robert Graves quote [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-23-80.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-23-80.png[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/libya/zliten/dar_buc_ammera_gladiators_tripoli_mus06.JPG[/IMG] . [b]The Garamantes (probably from Berber language: igherman; meaning: cities[/b] were a Saharan people who used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded a prosperous Berber kingdom in the Fezzan area of modern-day Libya, in the Sahara desert. They were a local power in the Sahara between 500 BC and 700 AD. There is little textual information about the Garamantes. Even the name Garamantes was a Greek name which the Romans later adopted. Available information comes mainly from Greek and Roman sources, as well as archaeological excavations in the area, though large areas in ruins remain unexcavated. according to Herodotus, they were "a very great nation" who herded cattle, farmed dates, and hunted the "Ethiopian Troglodytes", or "cave-dwellers" who lived in the desert, from four-horse chariots. ______________________________________________________________ [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-25-70.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-25-70.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-24-77.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-24-77.png[/IMG][/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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