Farès Moussa

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

Is that about fertility?

Is that about life, the colour of blood and life?

So continuity in the afterlife?

There's all sorts of ideas that you can extrapolate from that.

So, you know, around the same time, around 1000 BC, that we start to see this formation of a Garamantian proto kind of state.

You also get on the coast of North Africa, the arrival of Phoenician traders.

trading colonies you get in 814 BC the foundation of Carthage.

Now as far as we can tell they were traders and they were not expansionists or colonists per se so they needed to be able to establish connections with

other entities in the hinterland of the coast to be able to move goods around.

So in many ways, you can sort of see this picture of these traders on the coast wanting stuff that is in the central Sahara or even in sub-Saharan Africa that...

the Garamantes can provide.

And it's not a kind of a passive situation where the Carthaginians are coming to them and they're just acting as a middleman.

They're clearly moving distances to trade.

You also have this incredible opportunity at the end of the Second Punic War when Carthage's influence in North Africa is diminished a lot.

Remind me when the Second Punic War is.

Yes, it was to 1802 BC, between the Romans and the Carthaginians.

And at the end of that, with Hannibal's infamous defeat at the Battle of Zama, you have this moment for about 200 years where Carthage's influence is diminished.

And this time you see this kind of explosion, if you like, of these various indigenous kingdoms, including others like the Numidians, presumably also the Garamantes, where they are filling this kind of void, if you like, this vacuum.

and no doubt are doing so through trade.

So among them, so for example, I mentioned earlier that the Numidians, they do have a kingdom and they have a very clear lineage and that's been well attested.

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