Josephine Quinn
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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So in Tunisia, Algeria, further north in Algeria, the same kind of red ochre.
It's terrifying to think about.
I mean, these shafts that David's been describing, yes, some of these are 40 metres deep.
They're very narrow.
They are being dug down in a world where, you know, the daytime temperatures can reach 55 degrees.
There's less than a centimetre of rain a day.
And there are thousands of these things.
And each one of them has these access shafts every five or 10 metres, as David said.
It's all done by hand.
So one thing that I think it must mean is they have iron there, because you can't dig this literally by hand or by stone.
So they're already using some kind of iron.
But this is all human labour, essentially.
There is no way that people are going to volunteer to do this kind of work.
that I can't imagine a king so powerful that he could require his subjects to do this for 720 man years.
720 years.
An extraordinary amount of time.
And so we must be looking at enslaved labour here.
We know that there are, or at least we're told by Greek sources, that these Garamantes are slavers.
It's an obvious trade for the salt that they're also producing with this water irrigation.
So on the one hand, I think what we learn from this is that it's very likely that there's a significant use of enslaved labour in these OACs from further south.
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