another beautiful example from Tassili n'Ajjer.
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another beautiful example from Tassili n'Ajjer.
http://www.metrum.org/mapping/sahara.htm
‘...By the time of Herodotus the Sahara had acquired an appearance similar to the present one, since he describes it as a series of desert areas separated by oases. However, in his time the fertile areas that separate the deserts must have been more rich in vegetation than they are today.
‘Herodotus has been derided most of all for his description of the Fezzan, which he calls land of the Garamantes. The Romans called Garama the present Terma in western Fezzan. He describes (IV 183) the Garamantes as raising oxen that have horns turned forward. However rock paintings studied by Henri Lhote indicate that the raising of oxen was the basis of the economy of the populations of the Sahara in pre-historic times; bones and rock engravings prove that there were in the Sahara oxen with horns turned forward. Herodotus adds that the Garamantes chased the Troglodyte Ethiopians on chariots drawn by four horses. This indicates that the civilization of the chariot people persisted in the area of the Fezzan. Even after archaeological evidence supported strikingly the accuracy of Herodotus, there were some who persisted in finding fault with him; they objected that the rock engravings present chariots drawn by two or three horses and not four, but he has been vindicated even on this minor detail by the discovery in 1947 of a drawing of a chariot drawn by four horses at Wadi Zigsa, in the heart of the Fezzan...