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Herodotus referred to the Troglodytae in his Histories as being a people hunted by the Garamantes in Libya. He said that the Troglodytae were the swiftest runners of all humans known and that they ate snakes, lizards, and other reptiles. He also stated that their language was unlike any known to him, and sounded like the screeching of bats. [4]
Writers of the classical Greek and Roman period made several allusions to cave-dwelling tribes in different parts of the world, such as the Troglodytae. [5] Perhaps fleeing the violence of Ancient Romans, people left the Dead Sea Scrolls in eleven caves near Qumran, in what is now an area of the West Bank managed by Qumran National Park, in ...
Troglodyte (band), a metal band from Kansas City "Troglodyte (Cave Man)", a funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch on their 1972 album It's Just Begun The Troglodytes, a British band who became known as The Troggs
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Strategically located on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Albania appertain to one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots due to the elevated level of endemism within the Mediterranean Basin. [31] The flora of Albania consists of more than 3,200 vascular [32] and 2,350 non-vascular plants and a lesser known number of fungi. [18]
Troglodytes [a] is a genus of small passerine birds in the wren family. These wrens are around 11–13 centimetres (4.3–5.1 in) long. They are brownish above and somewhat paler below, with strong legs.
Tragjas is a community in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. [1] With the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Vlorë . [ 2 ]
Albania : an archaeological guide. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780760698. Korkuti, Muzafer (2007). Spataro and, Michela; Biagi, Paolo (eds.). The Early Neolithic of Albania in a Balkan perspective. In A short walk through the Balkans: The first farmers of the Carpathian Basin and adjacent regions. Trieste: Società per la Preistoria e ...