The original Libyan people were BLONDE (yes, blonde) . One of the Egyptian pharoahs has married Libya's queen and drawn her on one of his temple . She was blonde and blue eyed but she did not rule. Foreign royals never ruled Egypt.
Like most people of Africa, Libyan have mix married with blacks and other races to finally produce Moamar Al Kazafi..!
2006-06-28 22:38:42 · 6 answers · asked by coco 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Most of what we know about the ancient Libyans comes to us from ancient Egyptian sources. While some Libyans are occasionally depicted as having fair hair and blue eyes, not ALL of them were, and it is occassionally difficult in Egyptian depictions to distinguish Libyans from inhabitants of the Western Delta in Egypt.
There is a long history of contact between the Libyans, called Tjehenu in ancient Egyptian, and the Egyptians - usually military contact going back at least as far as the 1st Dynasty and possibly even earlier. A scene of the king smiting Libyans became a major motif in Egyptian royal iconography.
During the New Kingdom new groups are mentioned in connection with the area of Libya, including the Libu and Meshwesh and they apparently attempted to invade the western Delta on several occasions throughout the New Kingdom, eventually coming to be allied with the broader confederation called the Sea Peoples.
Many of the prisoners taken by the Egyptians during the battles to defend the borders of Egypt were forcible settled in Egypt and by the 21st Dynasty had become a powerful group in Thebes. During the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties centered at Bubastis and Tanis in the Delta, the kings were themselves of Libyan descent. This is usually characterized as an extremely anarchic period of Egyptian history, with multiple kings in multiple places claiming the right to rule at the same time - something some scholars suggest may have been a fairly typical aspect of Libyan political life.
The later Kushite 25th Dynasty and 26th Saite Dynasties eventually put an end to Libyan rule.
In Libya proper, there is evidence of colonization/conquest by the Phoenecians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines in various periods. The Arabs conquered Libya in the 7th Century AD and most of the population adopted Islam and Arab language and culture.
2006-06-30 09:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Libya is in North Africa
2006-06-30 00:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's very interesting in person-friendly of your extra contemporary question on "real" Jews as adverse to "faux" Jews from major Asia. Libya is a predominantly muslim u . s .. So through all the intermarriages which occurred might want to or not it really is a probability that those muslims from Libya are "faux" muslims. (Sarcasm completely meant)
2016-11-15 10:01:35 · answer #3 · answered by reneau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Libya, Tripoli is not in Africa (for some that thought so)
I dont know much but you could ask my nieces whose father is an Ambassador and they used ot live in Libya and did learn Arabic.
the bad part is i cant give out their names
2006-06-29 01:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by noteparece? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search in Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is not something hard to know the available details.
2006-06-28 22:48:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That’s nice. Honestly, I hardly know anything about Africa (except for Egypt). We weren’t taught anything about it.
2006-06-28 22:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋