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Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Governor-General of Italian Libya, photographed between 1938 and 1940.

Italo Balbo (1896-1940), governor of Libya between 1934 and 1940.

The Fileni Arch in Italian Libya was designed by architect Florestano Di Fausto in response to a request by the Italian Governor-General Italo Balbo (1896-1940). It was unveiled on 16 March 1937 in a lavish night ceremony attended by Benito...

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...

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 July 1940 photograph of British soldiers with an armoured car in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)