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What's for dinner?

by TheWanderingCamel

I just loved this fragment of mosaic in the museum at Sabratha, and the puzzle it poses. What can it have been made for? It clearly shows the ingredients of a recipe - some of which you can still see for sale on market stalls today in Libya - I saw bunches of onions and a tuberous vegetable that looked just like the ones here, though you would never see the pig's trotter or the other unidentifiable piece of offal now.Why would anyone go to all the effort of creating a mosaic - a very laborious and time-consuming task - for something so seemingly ordinary?So what do you think is the dish? My guess is for some sort stew but would it taste any good without the ingredients that are missing from the rest of the mosaic?

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What else?

by TheWanderingCamel

Well it would have to be, wouldn't it?How could this Wandering Camel resist taking photos of the camels she saw along the way? Not that there were a lot, but they can be a hazard on the desert roads, so keep an eye out - and tell your driver to slow down - I think the average Libyan driver is born with lead in his accelerator foot! The white babies were especially appealing - and I wish I had been speedier with my camera and managed to get a shot of one of the several trucks I saw with three or four camels sitting in the back tray - all looking so disdainful.No, I didn't ride a camel (I'd had a fall a couple of days earlier in Tripoli and was still rather stiff) but the Tuareg saddles were interesting - and I was assured they were comfortable too because of the way they support your legs out in front of you .

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Video camera and photo camera

by cadzand

Be aware that on every historical site or in every museum you'll have to pay 5 Libyan dinar for taking pictures and 10 dinar for videofilm, even if the site is small as in Tochra. Some guardians are strict, others aren't..

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Total Solar Eclipse

by alexsattic

March 29, 2006, there will be a total solar eclipse. The totalitys maximum duration will be 4m7s and will be visible in Libya. I thought it was really cool when I found out that many of the travel agencies or tour companies in Libya are working together to provide guided tours specifically for the eclipse.I've read that there are cruise ship tours going to ports in Libya specifically for the eclipse but haven't found that information yet.A couple of sites that I found interesting information about the eclipse in Libya are:www.eclipsely.comandhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

****************GHADAMES****************

by queensali

Town and oasis in Libya, with 10,000 inhabitants, next to the borders of Tunisia and Algeria.Ghadames is recognised for its beautiful and inventive architecture, designed to fight the dramatic extremities of Saharan climate.All houses are made out of mud, lime, and palm tree trunks. They are constructed so that all fit together, with covered alleyways between them, and adjacent roofs, allowing passage from one house to another.While the entire population have moved out to the modern nearby village, the old one offers the only good shelter against summer heat, so that the old village is still popular to use.Earlier the town was an important stopover on the caravan routes crossing the Sahara. Today's income is from some camel breeding, a small agriculture as well as administrative and military activities. 19 BCE: The Roman garrison Cydaus is set up, but the Romans found this a difficult...

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******************SABRATHA********************

by queensali

Sabratha was to a large extent the one with least wealth, yet there are structures here that gives a lot of sense to the idea of visiting it. Sabratha was constructed in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, but it did survive longer than its big brother, Leptis Magna. As is the case with many ancient cities in North Africa, it was the arrival of the Arabs, that resulted in the final decline.Much of the city was destroyed by earthquakes during the 4th century, particularly that which took place in 365 AD. A rebuilding programme followed but the city was now to occupy a much smaller area. The Vandals ruled in the 5th century but they were expelled under the Emperor Justinian and further building projects took place in the Byzantine era. Sabrata was to survive for a hundred years following the Arab invasion of the mid 7th century AD.The most spectacular site in Sabrata is the Theatre, probably...

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LEPTIS MAGNA

by queensali

--- is one of the most extensive archaeological sites - is a World Heritage site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa in the Tripolitania region of Libya, located on the coast 120 kilometres east of Tripoli. Originally founded by the Phoenicians in the 10th Century BC, it survived the attention of Spartan colonists, became a Punic city and eventually part of the new Roman province of Africa around 23 BCAs a Roman city it prospered, boasting Emperor L Septimius Severus as one of its sons and benefactors. Sacked by a Berber tribe in 523 AD it was abandoned and quickly reclaimed by the desert. Although it provided a source of building materials to various pillagers throughout history, it was not excavated until the 1920s. 1997 will be largely a study season when the artefacts and other evidence can be examined to piece together answers to some of the intriguing questions this dig has...

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CYRENE

by queensali

This site, located in the Gebel Akhdar region, was founded in the seventh century B.C. in an area where Carthaginian influence was predominant. From the fifth to fourth centuries B.C., this Greek trading post, situated inland, knew its most prosperous period and was able gain the goodwill of Alexander the Great, without falling under his sword. Cyrene, a city steeped in history and legends for a thousand years, is one of the most complex archaeological sites in the Mediterranean region. Like the other Greek cities of Libya it provides an outstanding example of prosperity in the Mediterranean and African worlds, whose attributes it managed harmoniously to combine.Monument after monument, the relics found by archaeologists illustrate an extremely clear aesthetic ambition and the religious fervour that inspired the people, focused on their protector, Apollo.The site of Cyrene, which has not...

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TADRART ACACUS

by queensali

The mountainous region of Tadrart Acacus is situated near the country's southwest border, east of the city of Ghat. The site also includes the Murzuch desert which bears traces of the different phases of the palaeolithic era, during which hunters lived surrounded by flora and fauna similar to those that today thrive in tropical regions. Tools have been unearthed across an area covering thousands of kilometres. In the Tadrart Acacus mountains, cave paintings and carvings of various styles are scattered throughout almost all the valleys, representing the various cultural groups that lived there during those long periods of prehistory. This cave art, discovered in the Libyan desert of Fezzan, bears witness to marked climatic changes resulting from the gradual encroachment of the desert.

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visit the desert '...

by marenloo

visit the desert ' Alsahara'which is the largest in the world.The Green Mountain has very lovely places.It situates in the eastern part of Libya and not so far from Benghazi.Cyrene which had been built by the ancient greek is 220 k.m from benghazi,you should see it.The capital Tripoli which is described in the next page.You shoud go to Gharian from it and see the digged houses there. Waterfalls in the green mountain are digged in memory . Try to visit them. There are two near the city of Derna.

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