Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Libyan desert reveal secrets

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24 Libya - Libyan desert draws a lot of cultural features, these features derived from the ancient history, and perhaps the evidence of this is found from the inscriptions and drawings on the rocks scattered throughout the desert, which dates back thousands of years old evidence of any historical depth of the humanitarian area, since there is an invisible rope combines the various manifestations of human beings throughout the ages, and this would contribute to the understanding of rights and the evolution of forms of social life, cultural and civilization.

The drawing of Fine Arts, which dovetailed with the man since he set foot in the ground, is the mainstay of Fine Arts each other defined by the first man in the stone ages, have been hired in the first attempt rights technical lines of various kinds, sometimes using his fingers to draw lines and sometimes uses a brush made himself Hat from trees and used the rights in these drawings colors mined from rocks or trees or even the blood of animals, was also used sharp tools to determine the color drawings in caves or on rock paintings, some of the work on behalf of Maaraf chalk drawings.

The ancient Libyans, like other human beings, they drew and sculpture and photography on the walls of their caves and rocks scattered desert.

The first of these inscriptions found on the Sun was a German traveler in the valley west of the city Alzenguen Murzuq in 1850 after the successive discoveries and one after the other.

The city of Murzuq of the oldest cities in Libya because some historians its inception to the time of the pharaohs, the city has witnessed a number of civilizations that gave Murzuq such historical town is located in one geographic location, where it is a very important meeting point for trade caravans between Africa and the Mediterranean coast and also a bridge to cross between western and eastern North Africa, because the prosperity of civilization through the ages to the high water table.

On the other hand was discovered a number of charges in the valley of life, and Mount Mknusp Znkikrp just south of the city guilty of this city built by Jermntyon (Amazigh) in the first century AD, the capital of their state, and is one of the oldest and most important evidence and consequences in Libya function on the history of the ancient Libyans. Located in the south-west of Libya.

In the Valley Brjoj-western region and Jabal Fezzan Fezzan east of booty and rock surfaces from Mount Nefoussa Tassili Plateau in the north to south in the north-east and extends to within the boundaries of Fezzan east, the French scientist (Henry Louth) is the author of the Tassili paintings trip in 1956 and managed with fellow during the period they spent there to find hundreds of painted walls depicting human and animal forms.

Ancient history .. Inscribed on the rock

Paintings and engravings filled throughout the Great Libyan desert, in addition to what has been mentioned earlier have been found in other graphics Mount Owainat southeast Libya, where some dating to the prehistoric and the others to the Stone Age, which contain drawings and inscriptions on the rocks, and several different types of which represents the images of animals Almcidon like an animal and the elephant, hippopotamus, alligator or wild animals There are also wild animals, cows and ostriches - although nothing indicates that it indicates the presence of water and grass during the period in this region - as well as a set of fees, which represent men or horse-drawn ride horses themselves and another group representing camel herders, and most important of these graphics board to the fishermen in a period called the bulls and the painting depicting boats Panel Venusal, mule deer and black images of the elephant also has a Ballaunayn red and white are some of the herds, accompanied by a pastor has been designated periods of the drawings, inter alia, the names of the bulls As previously reported, the Round Heads, a group of paintings including a portrayal of devils and Allenbalin small panel Thinness dancers, but the image of the boat carrying the offerings are similar to those stated in the Egyptian civilization, but the difference between the two images seen through the primitive drawing of the civilization of the Sahara, This is the case different graphics for the region and prove that it precedes a period of time other civilizations in the surrounding areas.

Cultural features of the incongruously through the Saharan population ages and the expression associated with literary and artistic addition to the fees dances practiced by the inhabitants of those areas, whether individually or collectively, and to remind of the most important dance (dance Alcaska) and which carried the meaning of an existing dispute between two tribes over water is interference by one of the elders to resolve the dispute and the parties reach a tolerance and perhaps this symbolism evident in this dance scenes to make all the events connected with some graphics that are through the feature group to act.

We also note the presence of horses in many of the drawings It is interesting to consider that the equestrian special place in Libya, where famous for both domestic and international.

Desert tourism

Desert areas are characterized by the warming climate mild during winter and spring months, ie, most of the year as the region is characterized by great diversity in landscapes, resulting from the multiple manifestations of the region where the terrain mountainous locations such as the Acacus Mountains, Mount Owainat Eastern and مساك Milliyet and Stavc course, areas of sand dunes of shapes and colors, such as dyes and dyes Ubari Murzuq and the Great Sand Sea, and the territory of Kalhamadp red stone, in addition to the oases areas, the most important oasis of Ghadames and the oases oasis languages and the valley of life and the beach and valley Jafra oases and Kufra Oasis, the region also includes the phenomena is a unique desert lake in the desert Ramlah Zlav, and the extinct volcanoes such as the F. Law, and scenic rock formations multiple Kalomayp and round rock and other natural phenomena resulting from the erosion factors, and oases are generally the most important tourist attractions of the desert and is characterized by its natural beauty as are usually located in lowland areas where water sources close to from the surface, which helps the growth of different types of plants and trees that cover vast areas of the oasis and foremost of which is palm trees and sand dunes surrounding the oasis and in some cases, lakes and provide all corresponding with unique tourist attraction, this is essential as well as the oases Butradtha cultural and ancient cities of the distinctive character of Vallowahat areas are evergreen in the desert, which provided the ages of water and lunch for the residents enabled them to carry out social and economic activities which formed the civilization and culture distinct desert, and most important the region's oases oasis oasis of Ghadames and languages, and in addition to Murzuq Oasis and Oasis Valley and offshore Valley life and of the Jafra oases also landmarks, lakes Gaberoun mother مندرة water, and what a mother horse and Tronp Almnaked and wonderful in the Great Sand Sea is an exciting and fun adventure on the sand F. Law which is a volcanic cone composed of exanthematous survival and ash surrounded by beautiful lakes which are located South Alharoj White

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