Editing Tuareg people (section)

===Early history===
{{further|Azawad|Tin Hinan}}
[[File:Hocine Ziani - La reine Tin Hinan.jpg|thumb|An artist's representation of [[Tin Hinan]], an ancient queen of the [[Hoggar Mountains|Hoggar]]]]
In antiquity, the Tuareg moved southward from the [[Tafilalt]] region into the [[Sahel]] under the Tuareg founding queen [[Tin Hinan]], who is believed to have lived between the 4th and 5th centuries.<ref>Brett, Michael; Elizabeth Fentress [https://books.google.com/books?id=vdrAfKmUrLcC&dq=%22tin+hinan%22&pg=PA207 M1 ''The Berbers''] Wiley Blackwell 1997 {{ISBN|978-0631207672}} p. 208</ref> The matriarch's 1,500-year-old monumental [[Tin Hinan tomb]] is located in the Sahara at [[Abalessa]] in the [[Hoggar Mountains]] of southern Algeria. Vestiges of an inscription in [[Tifinagh]], the Tuareg's traditional Libyco-Berber writing script, have been found on one of the ancient sepulchre's walls.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Briggs|first=L. Cabot|title=A Review of the Physical Anthropology of the Sahara and Its Prehistoric Implications|journal=Man|date=February 1957|volume=56|pages=20–23|doi=10.2307/2793877|jstor=2793877}}</ref>

External accounts of interactions with the Tuareg are available from at least the 10th century onwards. [[Ibn Hawkal]] (10th century), [[Al-Bakri|El-Bekri]] (11th century), [[Edrisi]] (12th century), [[Ibn Battutah]] (14th century), and [[Leo Africanus]] (16th century) all documented the Tuareg in some form, usually as Mulatthamin or "the veiled ones". Of the early historians, 14th-century scholar [[Ibn Khaldûn]] probably wrote some of the most detailed commentary on the life and people of the Sahara, though he apparently never actually met them.<ref>Nicolaisen, Johannes and Ida Nicolaisen. The Pastoral Tuareg: Ecology, Culture and Society Vol. I & II. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997, p. 31.</ref>