BENI WALID MUSEUM

It is an interesting little museum (dusty), which is exposed mainly to vestiges discovered in the region, which was the former Roman limès, a defensive border between the romanisé world of the coastline and the area of nomadic tribal tribes. However, legends are only in Arabic.

In the courtyard before the museum is a obelisk in the obelisk (th or th century).

1 st room (prehistory): photos of the Wadi Sharuna and Tilizaghen wadi. Neolithic era prints discovered in the region. Fossilized tree of the secondary era found towards Murzuq.

2nd burial house and amphorae of the Punic era, updated in the old town of Tripoli and Leptis Magna (from the third to the first century BC).

3rd shrine remains of the period of the Roman limès of the Wadi Wadi ((approximately 20 km from Beni Walid) and the Wadi Mighdal (approximately 75 km south), dating from the second and third centuries. The burning of a woman mourning the dead and the fish of a fish, associated with the carthaginians cult of the goddess Tanit, shows that the romanisés Berbers in the region still make a cult to the Punic gods.

4 th shrine remains at the mausoleums of the Wadi Tawil Wadi; on the right, two women (mother and daughter) to the hair cast and, left, statue of women with sail and collar (th century). ).

5 th room on the right, ruins of the hamlet of the Wadi el-Bellydances Wadi el-Bellydances (mausoleum of a dead Libyan man and Woman in the th century. (C); on the left, remains of Ghirza mausoleum (top of a top with grape, fig, bird headed to the palm grove where a man waters a palm tree, and top with flowers and fish). We will note the very beautiful engraving of a farmer attached to the palm on which he mounts to harvest the dates (th century. ).

6 th basement remains of the mausoleums Wadi Ranafs (120 km south of Beni Walid, near the Wadi Wadi). A splendid mausoleum built by a Berber farmer romanisé for his father represented by a sculpture in his military clothes on behalf of the Romans: Some elements of the range are Roman (couvre and footwear), other typically Berbers (white abya closed by a wood pin).

The rooms on the left present, as in most Libyan museums, gifts offered by the inhabitants to Colonel Gaddafi, models of the infrastructure of Beni Walid, and local crafts.