descriptions which classic authors
like Pliny, Strabo and Herodotus,
among others, made about the
Garamantes. This last historian
writes the following in the fourth
tome of The Nine books of History:
“From Auguila, after a trip of ten
journeys, there is another hill with
salt in its water and with many fruit
bearing palm trees like in the other
ones, and with men who live in that
hill who are called the Garamantes,
very populous nation, who, to sow
the land, cover the salt with a layer
of dirt”.
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Tadrart Acacus a desert area
in western Libya, part of the
Sahara