A Berber Nomad Cemetery in the Sahara Desert
This is the grave of a small Berber Nomad child.
After leaving our tent camp, but still in the Sahara Desert, we came across this Berber Cemetery. The Berbers are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, and today, most live primarily across Morocco and Algeria. About 90 percent of the Berber-speaking population speak one of six major varieties of Berber. (ref Wikipedia)
Some Berbers are sedentary farmers. Others tend to flocks of sheep in the mountain meadows in the summer, then move in the winter and are referred to as “semi-nomads.” Others are year-round nomads, and many are traders as seen in Rabat and Casablanca. Cemeteries, like the one in these images will, eventually, be covered over completely by the shifting sands in the Sahara Desert and there may be no evidence of them existing beneath the sand.
This second image is of small child’s grave. Sadly, there were quite a few small graves in this cemetery, some the size of newborn infants. It was very upsetting.
3 Comments on “Berber Nomad Cemetery in the Sahara Desert”
Dear sir
your information are wrong, because Berber [Imazighen] speaks one language that have many dialects, and they are homogenous group. you can chick those links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_E1b1b_%28Y-DNA%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages
Also, not most of Berber are farmer! city of Rabat and Casablanca are controlled by Berber traders,
Thank you for your comments and corrections. I’ve updated the text on the page.
Thank you, Marty.