Upward and outward the stone walls swept, and they saw dimly before them, in the light of their torches, a vast cavern, seemingly formed by the falling in of mountains, which, in toppling over, had met overhead in a sort of
rough arch, thus protecting, in a great measure, that which lay beneath them.
Travelling south from the Garamantes' ancient capital one reaches the Akakus, a Saharan land of soaring dunes and colossal rock formations:
rough arches, steep gorges and buttressed mountains, This remote terrain, inhospitable but ineffably beautiful, seems to confirm that Libya is a land beyond mythologization.