In reality there is no building dedicated to the dinosaur fossils found in Nalut. The fossils were first discovered by professor Masoud Khalifah Almashaekh. The remains are housed in a special wing of the local Red Crescent (Red Cross) building, and it is this wing that I am here referring to as Nalut Dinosaur Museum. …
The Gaberoun Lake is an inspiring natural art formed deep in the Libyan Desert, which managed to survive the Great Sahara’s harsh conditions and sand effects throughout the age.The lake stands as a precious blue diamond amid the golden dunes, with palm trees on one side and on the ruins of the old village on …
Waw an Namus (also spelled Wau-en-Namus, Arabic: واو الناموس) is a volcano in Libya. Of either Pleistocene or Holocene age, it is located within the eastern Fezzanregion. The origin of the volcanism there and at Al Haruj farther north is not clear. Radiometric dating has yielded an age of about 200,000 years ago, but other …
The prehistoric site of Tadrart Acacus, which is a continuation of Tassili n’Ajjer in Algeria, is very rich in prehistoric drawings, paintings and engravings, some of which are slowly deteriorating as a result of visitors and photographers wetting them for better photos, theft and vandalism among other acts of barbarism. Old Ghadames (the pearl of …
Ghadames, or Google’s Ghudamis, is the Berber Pearl of the Sahara, located at the edge of the Sahara Desert, close to the Libyan-Algerian border. The name Ghadames has nothing to do with the Arab-promulgated etymology of “ghadana ames” (‘where we had lunch yesterday’), simply because it was known to the Romans by the name Cydamus …
