Saturday, 12 November 2011

"Lost" Fortresses Of Sahara Revealed By Satellites

Real-life "castles in the sand" made by an ancient culture have been revealed in the Sahara, archaeologists say. New satellite photographs show more than a hundred fortress settlements from a "lost" civilization in southwestern Libya. The communities, which date to between about A.D. 1 and 500, belonged to an advanced but mysterious people called the Garamantes, who ruled from roughly the second century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.(more)

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