Farès Moussa
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But there is a language in common and various variants of that language across North Africa, and we see early forms of that.
Not Arabic.
We see early forms of that in the rock art, which we see along the Wadi al-Ajjal.
The problem with that is dating it and associating it with the Garamante.
So it's nearby, but exactly how it relates to the Garamantes, if it is directly related to them or not...
is the difficulty that we have, because these are rock engravings rather than rock pictures drawn with paint, so it's a very difficult medium to take.
Mainly outside North Africa.
Right.
Yes, so not directly related to the work that we've been doing on the Garamantes.
I did want to pick up a little bit on what we were talking about earlier with the religion.
And you started to talk, David, about religion.
Some of the ancestral worship, which I thought was an area which we didn't explore enough.
There's this really interesting relationship between the location of the cemeteries and then what appeared to be cemeteries.
separate little villages, if you like, within the oasis.
So it's almost like the villages are connecting to cemeteries a little bit further south from them in the escarpment.
And you mentioned about ancient practices, and one of those that we know a lot about, which Herodotus refers to, is this idea of incubation, where we see this idea that if you can...
sleep with the ancestors or in a place, in an enclosure close to your ancestors at the tomb, then you can divine or solve problems, for example.
And these are kinds of enclosures that we do find associated with some of these burials.
And, you know, there are these sorts of practices right up until the present day.
very much present throughout North Africa of sort of holy men shrines, ancestral shrines where people go and divine and indeed practice incubation right until the present day.
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