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The Greek famous historiographer "Herodot" ( 434 - 484 B.C) talked in his books about the old Libya phyla's, so he talked about the Germant phyla which was living in Fezzan area, and specifically in Zkankra mountain where on a top of it, there was the oldest vestige that was found there till the current date.
These vestiges assimilate in the existence of protected villages' leftovers which abided in the year 900 B.C, and in the First century.

It's probable that Germants in the beginning of the first century emigrated from their village to the area which is on the versant of the mountain close to the valley which called now by "Al haya valley", where they established city Germa which became the capitol city of their civilization.
"Herodot" has adduced in his forth book that Germants were working in the farming avocation and cultivate cattle, and they have a type of bull, walking behind the cattle.



In the year 70 and when the emperor "Fseasyan" the people of "Oea-Tripoli" sustained the Germants by standing with them in resistance against the Roman armies, when their armies stands on the board of Leptis Magna, and the peaceful relations between them was never at that time, but in the recent century when "Sabtimus" take control over the Roman Empire year (193 -211) so the was safe transportation between the cities for trading and travel to Leptis Magna and other cities, and situations stays like that for the long of the second and third century when Germa reached its higher level of prosperity, and the current vestiges including the leftover in the old Germant, which is so close to the current Germa that have about 2000 of population from the people which their origin goes to the old Germant people.

And during the 14th century the Germants has came back they built their capitol on the Islamic design which was ascendant, and they were using the bricks blocks, so they also rebuild the outer wall and they made three gates which were opened in the day, and closed in the night time, and they build three mosques and a round perch, and has also high towers, and so it's been counted as an important and heritage place, which their people who lived in it express their authentic during the old Eras and ages starting from (B.C) and reaching to our recent age



Zkankra Mountains

Zkankra Mountains are brewed of two apexes, from the south its higher apex reached to two thousands meters and battering stepwise from the northern side, ends with the north apex which is 600 meters higher on earth level, and expanding to the inner of the valley on a crescent head form.

When we go up to the upper apex which is the southern one, we will find the remains of four walls expanding from the west to the east, all of it goes parallel to each other from the north to the south, the first wall is the longest and the most one that still has its original form.

Next to the mountain from the southern side, there is remains of big wall was around the mountain, it was built with Bricks of blocks, and it was shored in its upper parts with bricks, the length of this wall is still unknown, as the remains is not enough to tell.

The Italian expedition which is followed to the Royal Academic the year 1965, 1966 found the remains of the alleviations similar to the ones near the base of mountain from the northern side, also there was found a piece of the wall.

Out of the wall, there's a group of circular graves, the British expedition found several of these graves, also found in it some of clay vessels.

The remains there, showed that the Germants established there on the top of the southern apex of Zkankra then to the other apex then to the foots of the apex where they made a wall to protect the mountain, then they established some small alleviations of blocks and cobs, and it seems that they were depending on the rain, which was with no doubt so heavy, and this explain to us the reason of the existence for a lot of deep water channels which was delved in the mountains that was on the path of the rain water, also it appears that the rain was so well to a level that makes it away to start a vegetarianism life in the foots of Zkankra.

It also appears that those alleviations were abandoned in a while in the end of the first century, and it's the proximal time to the arrival of the Roman affections to Fezzan.

And there's nothing that points to the arrival of the Romanian leader (- Cornilius Balbus ) the year 19 B.C.

And after he immigrate in the beginning of the second century, it was used as orbital place to cut the blocks, and there was some collapsing for some of the rocks, which was a result of covering the foots and the death of all the abutilons, also the homes were destroyed. And that deleted a time where this place was a green paradise.






Al Heteya Pyramids

About 6 km's east of Obari city, and in the middle of the valley there is a cemetery on the surface and bald, which is a group of graveyards on pyramid form, built of cob blocks, its height about 4 or 5 Meters, the environmental factors effected these buildings which took off some of them while crumbled the other buildings, either the burying room that exists under the pyramid despite that was no digging on these pyramids, but we still can assure the place of the burying room, which was a result of uncovering one of the pyramids when it collapsed because it was broken, that collapsing discovered the existence of a well that leads to one of underground rooms, and it's very sad that no fossils has been done to this area.
Here can be noticed generally that the Germant people have been using different ways for burying also they built different kinds of graves, and the reason returns for their promiscuity with different people which they got from them the different kind of burying.

So there was the round stripe of graves, and it is a round hole it's diameter about one meter and half to 6 meters, and its depth is shoal doesn't go further than one and half meter, the grave is a round form which looks like a ring of stones which tamped well to make the tailing of the grave, the launce of the round is about 30 or 40 Cm's, then the tomb lays usually as a baby body in his mother's entrant, with hands being folded.
The second type of graves looks like squares which the small is higher than the big, this form was used in the big cemeteries, alike in the royal graves or kings graves, historiographer has said that Libyans were sleeping on the graves of their grand's the cause is to read the future, and the soul of the father shall come to the son to tell him about the future, and it's possible that are terrace graves was made to for this thing, and it was bestowed in front of the grave from the eastern side, gravestone as a horns form, this gravestone was cut out of Nubian sand stone and its outer surface was buffed and painted with red, and till now we don't the original of these gravestones that were found on the fossils which were found in yafa "Palestine", also some of it was in Malta, these simple gravestones might be Kreterian in origin.
The third kind of graves it's that pyramid form that we saw a similar to it in the First type of the Hetiya Graveyard and Kharaiye, also there are some of pyramid graves which were found on different places of Al Haya Valley ( Al Aagaal), and it's still not known that this type of graves were moved to Fezzan from Egypt or the opposite, because its famous that this grave is Egyptian in origin and it was upgraded from different type of graves inside Cabana which was of pyramid form, then there was terrace and Pyramid terrace, Then dialed pyramids like ( Saqara ) pyramid, which is like a lot of terraces everyone is higher than the other one, then the pyramid form which reached the higher length for the three pyramids in Al Jeza which its height reached to 146 Meters.




                                                               
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