Josephine Quinn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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So yes, as you say, about 2,000 years ago, more specifically from about 1,000 BCE to about 600 or so CE, so over a long period of time, we're looking at a very large area across the Sahara from what's now southern Libya across to southern Algeria.
And we're looking at this network of oasis settlements
And the people who live there have learned to farm the desert.
They are also traders who've made a kind of crossroads of the Sahara between north and south, east and west.
But this is a very complex society.
So these are people who have cities and temples.
They forge metals.
They make glass.
They have monumental tombs for their dead.
And we're talking about a really vast scale here as well.
So there are hundreds of sites that we should at least call, say, village-sized in modern terms.
Some of them are a lot larger than that.
And there are hundreds of thousands of tombs.
That's a good question.
So...
The meaning of the word seems to change over time.
So all of our testimonies of this word are external.
You start off with Greek authors who seem to use the word to refer to a single oasis, a single large, powerful oasis.
Later, you get Roman authors who explain that by their period, at least, there's a Garamantian kingdom based in a sort of capital Oasis.
oasis of Garima.
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