Garamantian Chariots

Sahara Aouanrhet Rock Art: Alien-like Crafts & Flying Bodies?
All the elements are real; only the colours were added
to convey the surreal nature of the composition.

These drawings apparently were the images in which some writers saw spaceships and alien crafts from other planets. The drawing at the top of the above image (from Aouanrhet) is known as "The Swimming Woman with Breasts on her Back (127x85 cm); Post Bovidian Period. According to Henri Lhote, "This painting was discovered under a beehive rock and in a shelter too small ever to have served as a dwelling. The scene is a complex one. Above, is a woman stretched out and towing a man whose limbs are doubled up. Below, to the left, a figure, with outstretched arms, is emerging from a curious ovoid object " (Frescoes, p. 221).  

Garamantian Chariots.

The above presumed alien crafts can also be real Garamentean chariots, or some form of early go-carts (go-karts), which later on evolved to become chariots and carts. According to Herodotus, chariots were invented by the Garamantian people of Libya interior, and to this day chariots are still used in Tripoli. We have no reason to dispute this, as we know that the Sahara really was the home of human civilisation as we know it today. It is more probable their use had spread to Egypt from Libya, and from there to southern Europe and the Middle East. On average there are about 500 drawings of chariots known to exist so far, most of which are found along two parallel tracks running from one water well to the next water source: one running from Fezzan towards Goa on the Niger bend, and the other from Orania and southern Morocco towards   Goundam. Many of the current Sahara tracks and pistes were originally chariot routes.

Here is the actual prehistoric image (left) and the reconstructed image of a spacecraft (right) as fantasised by some writers. In my opinion the prehistoric image is an early form of a go-cart, or some sort of a toy made of two wheels, clearly showing someone sitting in the cart and being pushed. As Herodotus informs us that the wheel was invented by the Libyans, then this could well be one of the early, if not the first, wheel toy to be invented.

Garamantean Chariot Paintings & Drawings

A chariot pulled by two horses.

From Tin Newen, Acacus.

Garamantian chariot from Wadi Tashwinat, in Acacus, Fezzan, southern Libya.

Chariot, from Tin Newen.

Watch "The Ancient Chariots of Libya", a video by Quicksilver Screen, in the tracks of the chariots.

Just go to http://www.temehu.com/Videos/V.htm and then click on Chariots on the right-hand-side menu.

These are the modern chariots still in use today in Tripoli city centre as taxis.

Explore the city centre in a Libyan chariot.