der we know from the
present, and we can
start to imagine the
nomad people or, the
“Amazigh”, who would
go back and forth in the
Mahgreb and Sahara.
Some important classic historians – mainly Greek and Roman
- mention several of
those tribes, rarely omitting the name
of what was probably
the most prosperous
and enigmatic of the
North of Africa: The
Garamantes.
“There existed, in the Libyan Sahara, a
long tradition of mummification which
ended being exported to Egypt, according
to some experts”
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