The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

people and held up Arabs as the true Libyans. In doing so he thrust himself, the son of an Arab Bedouin nomad, into the center of Libyan identity. The ancient Greek and Roman sites of Libya meant ...

When used in reference to the ancient world, “Libyans” is an all-encompassing term that denotes the various nomadic subgroups and tribes that lived to Egypt’s west. Of the many foreigners to ...