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Roman expeditions to sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile River. Between the first century BC and the fourth century AD, several expeditions and explorations to Lake Chad and western Africa were conducted by groups of military and commercial units of Romans who moved across the Sahara and into the interior of Africa and its coast.
Accounts are found in Seneca the Younger's Naturales quaestiones, VI.8.3 and Pliny the Elder's Natural History, VI.XXXV, p. 181-187: . The Roman legionaries navigating the Nile from southern Egypt initially reached the city of Meroe and later moved to the Sudd, where they had difficulties going further.
Roman expeditions to Sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile river. Africa is named for the Afri people who settled in the area of current-day Tunisia. The Roman province of Africa spanned the Mediterranean coast of what is now Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. The parts of North Africa north of the Sahara were well known in antiquity. However, the ...
Map showing the "Agisymba" territory, during Roman explorations of Sub-Saharan Africa. Agisymba (Ancient Greek: Ἀγίσυμβα) was an unidentified country located in Africa mentioned by Ptolemy in the middle of the 2nd century AD.
The remains of a young sub-Saharan African woman, which has been dated to the 1st millennium BC and possessed a lip plug that is associated with Sahelian African groups, was buried among other Sub-Saharan Africans that were part of the heterogenous Garamantian population. Power et al. (2019) states: "This ornament demonstrates that some ...
Sub-Saharan Roman expeditions-explorations Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and the Niger River (19 BC–90 AD): Roman expeditions (two in the western Sahara, two in the central Sahara, and one in the area of Lake Chad) to subdue warring tribes in the area (like the warlike nomadic tribe of the Garamantes who lived in the current region of Fezzan ...
Roman authors ascribed an uncivilized nature to the Blemmyes. Both Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela associated the Blemmyes with mythical figures such as satyrs and Goat-Pans (Pomponii Melae de Chorographia 1.23; Pliny, Natural History 5.44). Pliny even described them with monstrous appearance as having no heads, ‘their mouth and eyes being ...
Roman expeditions to Sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile river Roman domination of the northern Mediterranean coasts of Africa began when Carthage was defeated. [ 2 ] The Roman Empire in the following century controlled all the coasts from the Nile valley to the Atlantic Ocean of modern Morocco .