Talk:Ancient Libya

Desertification etc
The page mentions "desertification", as well as some unknown "catastrophic event". I do not know what the author of these paragraphs thought of, or what time period (s)he contemplated, but this may be relevant: 365CE Crete earthquake and tsunami. I am not adding it to the page, as I have no idea what the original authors were referring to. clsc (talk) 23:47, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Ancient Libyans were not hunter gatherers
When animals and plants were first domesticated in the near east two major life styles had emerged. Farming and pastoralism gradually replaced the hunter gatherer life style everywhere. The article clearly says that Ancient Libyans were nomad hunter gatherers living off their goats, camels and other livestock which is an oxymore, you're either a pastoral nomad or a hunter gatherer. BTW, camels were not attested in Ancient Egypt, they were introduced later in history.

The first appearence of the name
According to my source, the name libu is mentioned from the period of Merenptah, but i read that Ramesses II was the first one who fought against them. Can someone correct it, if it is wrong? Best regards Read3r 14:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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This article needs to be corrected to be written in comprenhensive English. Read3r 14:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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Cleaned up
I've tidied this page up a little. It's still far from perfect. SuzanneKn 23:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Read3r 08:06, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the following sentence:
 * Oric Bates is a historians who considers that the name Libu or LBW would be derived from the name Luwatah whilst the name Liwata is a derivation of the name Libu.
 * is no clearer than the original version:
 * Oric Bates is one of those Historians who believe that the name Libu or LBW would be derived from the name Luwatah. He wrote in the page 57 as a note in his informative book The Eastern Libyans that the name Liwata is a derivation of the name Libu.
 * Liwata derives from Libu, which derives from Luwatah? That doesn't make sense. First, can these forms please be attributed to specific languages? My impression is that Libu is the oldest form, which is based on Egyptian LBW and Greek Libye, while Luwatah and Liwata are Arabic, so I suspect that Oric Bates really writes that the Arabic forms ultimately come from Libu, not the other way round. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Let's get the Original Pic of the Libyan
That pic is of a falsified reproduction. Real Libyans as drawn by Egyptians look more like Asiatics and not Europeans.


 * If you have any better picture, please upload it. BTW, it is nonsense to say the Libyans look more Asiatics than Europeans. Not because i believe they look more Europeans than Asiatics. That is not very interesting. But because they are Africans. Black Africa is not only a racial tought, but also nonsensical, this as long as North africa is African. Greetings!Read3r 15:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Help request for Psylli
Anyone with knowledge to help out with Psylli which needs a similar cleanup to the one this article went through. Donama (talk) 02:08, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Correct some statements about "berber" grammer
In general it appears that most "berber" dialects use an "i" ant the start and "en" at the end of a word to indicate the plural. And to indicate a female the word starts with a "t" or "th" and ends with a "t"... Contrary what it is stated in the article in the sixth paragraph or so of the article Ancient Libya

Correct some statements about "berber" grammer
In general it appears that most "berber" dialects use an "i" at the start of a word and "en" at the end of that word to indicate the plural. And to indicate a female connotation, the word starts with a "t" or "th" and ends with a "t"... Contrary to what it is stated in the article in the sixth paragraph or so of the article Ancient Libya

"step-pyramid like"
Shouldn't it be "step-pyramid-like" instead? I have corrected it for the time being. Feel free to undo if I'm wrong.--Adûnâi (talk) 09:59, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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Written history
Did NOT start in Egypt, as the article claims. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.21.141 (talk) 17:05, 11 June 2021 (UTC)