Libyan Desert
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The Libyan Desert is a geographical region filling the northeastern Sahara Desert, from eastern Libya to the Western Desert of Egypt and far northwestern Sudan approximately 1,300,000 km². On medieval
The Libyan Desert landscape east of the Gilf Kebir.
Acacus landscape
Libya
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Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, N
Libyan Desert
…Egypt and Libya. This name derived from a territory known as Ancient Libya. (It was not until 1934 that former Ottoman Tripolitania became known as Libya.) In his book Libyan Sands, Ralph Bagnold went as far as to suggest that the Libyan Desert was a separate geographical entity from the Sahara, cut off…
Archaeological site of Sabratha, Libya
Leptis Magna
Septimius Severus, the first Roman emperor native to Roman Africa, was born in Leptis Magna.
The Atiq Mosque in Awjila is the oldest mosque in the Sahara.