Libya: Did you mean...?

This aerial picture shows the ruins of Germa, known as Garama in antiquity. Garama was once the capital of the powerful Garamantean Kingdom which rose to prominence in the region of southeast Libya around 500 BCE and was a regional power...

A photograph showing Free French troops digging an artillery emplacement at Bir Hakeim, Libya prior to the battle of Gazala in June 1942. (Imperial War Museums)

This prehistoric Saharan rock carving from Wadi Mathendous in the Fezzan, Libya depicts two cats fighting. Similar petroglyphs can be found in rock escarpments throughout the Sahara, providing valuable clues to the people who inhabited and...

Umar al-Mukhtar (1858-1931), a leader of the resistance to the Italian colonisation of Libya, arrested and transferred to the Palazzo del Littorio in Benghazi to be tried on 15 September 1931.

Ghadamès in Libya, known as 'the pearl of the desert', stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and an outstanding example of a traditional settlement. Its domestic architecture is characterized by a vertical division...

A map showing the maximum territorial extent of the New Kingdom of Egypt, ca. 1450 BCE.

The travels of Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fāsī, c. 1494 - c. 1554) illuminate the cultural and political complexity of 16th-century North and West Africa at a moment of shifting imperial, commercial, and religious frontiers...

Possibly what the Greek historian Herodotus believed the world looked like (5th century BCE) based on his writings.

The German commander Erwin Rommel inspects the German Afrika Korps in North Africa in March 1941. He is accompanied by General Garibaldo on the left. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing a British Rolls-Royce armoured car near Bardia during Operation Compass (9 Dec 40 - 7 Feb 41), the Allied offensive which won several important victories against Italian forces in North Africa during the Western Desert...