Farès Moussa

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And so, yes, the relationship with them is very interesting because I suppose the texts that we have suggest that

You know, the Garamantes are not actually as far away from the coast as we think or know they are.

We know that their heartland was that far away, what is now southwest Libya, central Sahara.

But you get often references to, for example, King Masanissa, who was a king of the Numidians at one point.

Exactly.

And at some point he seeks refuge... Would that be modern-day Tunisia?

So he seeks refuge in the 1st century BC in an area within or close to the Garamantian territory.

So if that's what...

he's doing, then you're not having to go too far to get into what is perceived as Garamantian territory.

So what that suggests is that the Garamantis somehow have territories or have influence north of their centre, quite far and quite near to the Mediterranean.

But also what's interesting about that is you don't,

They don't feature in a lot of dramas, do they?

You don't see a lot of texts kind of talking about them getting into big kind of conflicts with various entities, which is interesting in itself.

Yet there is one thing.

Well, that's interesting.

I think you can quite safely say that there's a disconnect between those people that we're talking about in the past and people who live in the region now.

But I think as we have started to learn a bit more about the Garamantes, people have started to obviously take an interest in that heritage, specifically within that region.

I think, though, what that...

kind of feeds into is a broader phenomenon which I think that we are beginning to witness in North Africa.

And this has all arisen with the ability to have genetic tests and to know your mitochondrial DNA kind of profile, which we haven't had in the past.

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