The ancient Libyans in ancient Egyptian sources From the third millennium to the first millennium B.C

Abstract

The Libyan lands witnessed, over its wide extension, a diverse human settlement, which was the main factor in building its civilization and elevating its prestige. For her, the researchers were able to identify them by relying on multiple historical sources, whether written or archaeologically material, as they formed the key that helped researchers study these tribal groups in terms of their names, their first origins, and their areas of stability. In addition to her physical features and the clothes that she adorned, and among the most important of these sources were the Egyptian sources.

It was the first source that provided adequate information about the tribal groups that inhabited the Libyan territories, especially with regard to the relations that linked the two parties, whether warlike or peaceful.

As these sources mentioned the Libyan tribes since the pre-dynastic period until the era of the modern state, they provided an accurate description of their most important economic activities and the areas of stability for each of them, which were generally concentrated between the areas extending from the west of the northern delta borders in the east to the borders of Carthage in the west, and from The Mediterranean in the north to the oases in the south.

In addition to their physical features, the shape of their clothes and their adornment, which differed from one tribe to another, these features helped researchers determine the origins of these tribes and refute the opinions that they were from outside the region, and they came to it with the migrations of the sea peoples.

Among these tribes mentioned on the Egyptian sources were the Tahnu, Tammoh, Libo, and Mashwash.