Jaghbub Oasis in ancient times

Abstract

The ease of communication between Libya and Egypt and the absence of natural obstacles separating them, gave geographical importance to the oasis of Jaghbub as a station linking the Libyan desert and the Nile Valley through the Siwa Oasis, so this site made it an effective impact in transferring the manifestations of civilization since ancient times. The Libyan man went to the Nile Valley without others through these oases when the climate changed and the era of drought began, so the oasis of Al-Jaghbub in those times was an environment with a great impact on communications and the exchange of religious and cultural beliefs, as the civilization that was transferred from the Libyan desert through these oases is an intellectual civilization, experiences and experiences, which contributed to enhancing cultural interaction with its geographical surroundings, which prompted the Libyan man carrying his beliefs, ideas and experiences to start his life on the banks of the Nile Valley with what he ended up with. From desert cultures.

    During the historical era, the ancient Libyan man was able to transcend geographical and social distances through commercial contact with Egypt through the oasis of Al-Jaghbub, especially in the Pharaonic era, where the historian Herodotus mentioned desert routes for caravans through the oases, extending from the Nile Valley to the west, linking the Egyptian and Libyan oases and starting from Thebes in southern Egypt to the Libyan interiors, where the oasis of Awjila appears as if it were the millstone of a network of desert caravan routes, which helped - I believe - the man of the desert to reuse The ancient commercial caravan routes, starting from the oases of Fezzan to the Siwa oasis, passing through Al-Jaghbub, where many pharaonic tombs and mummies were found as a settlement site of importance in the trade routes with Siwa and then Thebes, and for this reason, the oasis of Al-Jaghbub is considered a mixture of objective and subjective elements in a historical, social and ideological reality integrated in diversity and understanding with the Egyptian oases, and within the framework of a historical territorial integrity accumulated with the Libyan oases throughout ancient historical times.

  Hence, interest in studying and treating the history of Al-Jaghbub Oasis in ancient times has been active as one of the most important forms of civilizational interaction and its impact on neighboring cultures and civilizations.