Farès Moussa

TL;DR: The Desert Migrations Project as mentioned in this paper is a new interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional collaborative project between the Society for Libyan Studies and the Department of Antiquities to address the theme of migration in the broadest sense, encompassing the movement of people, ideas/knowledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan.

TL;DR: The Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project carried out two main excavations in the 2009 season, at the monumental Garamantian cemeteries of TAG001 and TAG012, by the Taqallit headland.

TL;DR: A survey by the DMP Burials and Identity team around the Tāqallit headland in 2009-2010 has revealed in exceptional detail a well-preserved Garamantian landscape, comprising extensive cemeteries, foggara irrigation systems and numerous oasis settlements as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The second season of the Desert Migrations Project took place in January 2008, with work following several substrands as discussed by the authors, with excavation and survey work concentrated in the Watwat embayment, expanding on, and completing the work begun in 2007.

TL;DR: A survey and excavation by the Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focused in 2011 on the so-called Royal Cemetery of the Garamantes close to the Jarma escarpment, a few km south of Old Jarma as mentioned in this paper.