Farès Moussa

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

One of the attributes of the Amon god is the ram's horns.

He manifests in the wind and

So you can sort of see, if indeed Amon is associated with the Garamantes, how it could fit in with that world of the Sahara Desert, where they are indeed moving around a lot, and so they need protection, presumably, in their travels in such a hostile environment.

In terms of how the archaeology backs that up, it's very little.

Any temples?

There was a temple type structure which was excavated early on in the centre of Garama and a bronze mask or head of Salinas was discovered.

Now, there's a sort of a tenuous connection there with Dionysus because, of course, in Greece, Amon became associated with Zeus and Dionysus.

So there is a very, again, very tenuous link.

But we do, of course, have burials, which is, of course, one of the best ways that we can understand something about their ideas and beliefs.

And there's been a lot of survey and excavation of those cemeteries and burials.

You have many different types of burial.

You have mud brick built small pyramid structures.

You have cobbled cairns and they are organised in discrete cemeteries, normally at the base of the escarpment.

They are adorned with funerary furniture, so they have stelae, which are carved in a kind of a four-finger sort of motif.

They have offering tables, you know, if you can imagine your airplane food tray and all the slots in it, it's a little bit like that, the funerary table, and the evidence of possible animal remains that have been deposited in those.

Inside the burials, we have crouch burials.

So the deceased have been laid on their side in the fetal position.

They're normally wrapped in cloth, and we found recently in some cases in leather, doused in...

in some cases in this really dark red ochre, completely doused in red ochre, which is fascinating.

What is that?

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