# By the fifth century BC Herodotus knew inner Libya as waterless and rainless

> Herodotus, writing before Plato, describes Libya beyond the salt ridge that runs to the Pillars of Heracles as desolate and waterless, without rain or…

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# By the fifth century BC Herodotus knew inner Libya as waterless and rainless

Herodotus, writing before Plato, describes Libya beyond the salt ridge that runs to the Pillars of Heracles as desolate and waterless, without rain or forest.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[Wet but not a ringed lake: streams and small lakes in the African Humid Period, about 14,800 to 5,500 years ago](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9GQMCS19/wet-but-not-a-ringed-lake-streams-and-small-lakes-in-the)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). By the fifth century BC Herodotus knew inner Libya as waterless and rainless [Evidence EVD0DCPAGPS20DJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPAGPS20DJ
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