Farès Moussa

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And it's a pretty basic and straightforward activity insofar as that you're essentially walking through specified zones that you want to target and you're looking for stuff, right?

So whether you're looking for rock art along the base of this escarpment I described to you or whether you're looking for burials or whether you're looking for irrigation systems, you first have to walk, literally walk through and do systematic records of it.

Because there is so much of it, you stop every few minutes to record something and then you make a systematic record.

You take photographs, you make drawings, you take GPS coordinates.

So that's one level.

If you want to go in a bit more detail, for example, if you want to go in and have a look at a burial and the contents of the burial, then you'll conduct systematic excavations.

And you asked, what did we find?

Lots of stuff.

And, of course, different levels of preservation.

A lot of burials were looted in antiquity.

So soon after the burials were made, somebody has come along and taken stuff out of them.

So obviously they knew there were valuables in there.

So they beat us to it, essentially.

But depending on the level of preservation, we find, obviously, skeletal remains, in some cases desiccated bodies, so bodies which were preserved.

ceramics, cloth, leather.

We've even found in the most recent excavations, we found a bronze bell.

We found some fragments of gold leaf.

I mean, the most frequent motif, I suppose, which occurs in the text is reference to the association of the Garamantes with a god called Amon.

most people be aware of in relation to the Egyptian Amon, who then becomes Amon-Ra and Amon-Min in later forms.

And Amon is perceived as this invisible god who protects people in their travels.

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