The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE)

Abstract

This presentation will examine Greek sources relating to accounts of Phoenician, Persian and Greek circumnavigations around the African continent and the Sahara desert. By contrasting the written sources with archaeological documentation on the coastal settlements of Morocco, it will ask what the ancients' experience and knowledge of the Sahara was. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus in particular will be examined.

Speaker(s)

Mohamed Tahar

University of Tunis, Tunisia

The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE)

The Sahara in ancient written sources (up to 650 CE)

Abstract

Speaker(s)

Mohamed Tahar

Events

History of the Sahara up to 650 AD - Presentation

The Sahara : a paleo-environmental setting

Saharan rock art : state of the art

Physical anthropology : a critical review

Lithic monuments from the Sahara and Sahel (4th-1st millennium BC)

Protohistoric and medieval tumuli and megaliths in the Sahel region

Prehistoric cultures in the Sahara as seen through mineral artefacts

Archaeology of material cultures : ceramics

Zoological history of the Sahara

Floristic history of the Sahara

Linguistic history of the Sahara

Re-population in the early Holocene (12 000-5 000 AEC)

The Sahara as a pastoral and agrarian space (from 5 000 to 1 500 BC)

Protohistory in the Sahara : chariots and metal

The Sahara : an inscribed landscape

Oasis systems, mobility and trade in and across the Sahara (800 B.C.-650 A.D.)

The Egyptians and the Sahara : at the crossroads of sources

The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE)

The image of the Sahara in Roman artworks

See also

Lithic monuments from the Sahara and Sahel (^4th-1st millennium BC)