Kingdom of the sands: how a Saharan slave-trading people made the desert bloom

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An archaeological survey led by David Mattingly of the University of Leicester, in the Fazzan area of southern Libya, has revealed a remarkable obscure desert civilization known to the Romans as Garamantes constructed almost a thousand miles of underground tunnels and shafts in a successful bid to a mine long-buried fossil water. The success of these Garamantes was based on their sub-terranean water-extraction system called foggaras in Berber.

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Rethinking the Picts

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The origin of Pictish sculptures as the new research carried out by the Henderson and other art historians have found that Pictish sculptures possessed their own originality and some were complex theological arguments engraved in stone. The Pictish sculpture was unique in its own way as its design was more intricate than that of Ireland or England, and it is tended to employ complicated and ingenious spiral, and geometric patterns.

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A yearning for Yemen: second thoughts on working in the Middle East

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Juris Zarins, the chief archaeologist on the Transarabia Expedition, discusses the Arabian archaeology and the impact of terrorism and war on his research.

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