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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trollkillah # Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by typeZeiss: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] the only reason I put that up is to demonstrate that the word Libyan is used by Egyptologists and any book on typezeiss' shelf [b] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Some of the people who holds the theory that these early Delta inhabitants were Libyans is ME. I base this on archaeological as well as historic evidence which I will soon present on a thread Takruri created a while back. [/QUOTE][/b] ^^ this remark is referring to the much unifictaion period around 3150 BC, "Libyans" here referring to inhabitants of the Western Desert Etymology of the words Libya, Egypt and Africa is a diversion and separate topics. [/qb][/QUOTE]You're daft, so let me reiterate. You were using the term Libyan as if it describes ONE group of people. That doesn't work because the term Libyan is 1. GREEK in origin and it denotes ALL of Africa, not just one region and it does not denote a ethnic group. The quote you gave mentions Libya (Africans), so its talking about a group(s) of people on the continent of Africa, then it gets very specific and names the groups in question. Can your thick skull decipher what I am saying? I don't think I am speaking in riddles, maybe I am? I don't know. Also, if you think discussing the meaning of words, to ensure people are using the words properly is a diversion, I think it shows how low you mental capacity is. If someone is using words incorrectly, it totally obscures and obfuscates the discussion. Now I think we are all on the same page, as we now clearly understand the meanings of these words. Most people think Libya is North Africa, and it is not. It does not denote some mythical white group of people living in North Africa as, back then outside of Greek settlements, whites were not present in North Africa, them be the facts. Libya = all of Africa. Doesn't denote white berbers or white peoples. It is just the name of a continent full of black peoples. [/qb][/QUOTE][QUOTE] [b]Leptis Magna [/b]is a unique artistic realization in the domain of urban planning. It played a major role, along with [b]Cyrene[/b], in the movement back to antiquity and in the elaboration of the neoclassical aesthetic [b]The Phoenician port of Lpgy was founded at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC and first populated by the Garamantes. [/b]The city, which was part of the domain of Carthage, passed under the ephemeral control of Massinissa, King of Numidia. The Romans, who had quartered a garrison there during the war against Jugurtha, integrated it, in 46 BC, into the province of Africa while at the same time allowing it a certain measure of autonomy. Although Leptis (the latinization of its Phoenician name) was comparable to the other Phoenician trading centres of the Syrtian coast, like Sabratha, after Septimius Severus became emperor in 193, its fortunes improved remarkably. Thanks to him, the renewed Leptis was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman world. It is still one of the best examples of Severan urban planning. Thereafter, Leptis felt prey to the same vicissitudes of fortune as the majority of the coastal cities of Africa. Pillaged from the 4th century and reconquered by the Byzantines who transformed it into a stronghold, it definitively succumbed to the second wave of Arab invasion, that of the Hilians in the 11th century. Buried under drifting sands, the city has only been disengaged, piece by piece, over the course of a long archaeological exploration. The city, which was constructed during the reign of Augustus and Tiberius but which was entirely remodelled along very ambitious lines under the Severan emperors, incorporates major monumental elements of that period. The forum, basilica and Severan arch rank among the foremost examples of a new Roman art, strongly influenced by African and Eastern traditions. The sculptures of the Severan basilica, which remain in situ, and that of the Severan arch, in the museum at Tripoli, are innovative in their linear definition of forms, the crispness of their contours and the angular delineation of their volumes: a comprehensive aesthetic, conceived as a function of the blinding African sun. The ancient port, with its artificial basin of some 102,000 m2, still exists with its quays, jetties, fortifications, storage areas and temples. Dug under Nero and organized under Septimius Severus, it is one of the chefs d'oeuvre of Roman technology with its barrage dam and its canal designed to regulate the course of Wadi Lebda, the dangerous torrent that empties into the Mediterranean to the west. The market, an essential element in the everyday life of a large commercial trading centre, with its votive arch, colonnades and shops, has been for the most part preserved. The building, which dates from the Augustan period, was transformed and embellished under Septimius Severus. Warehouses and workshops also attest to the commercial and industrial activity of a city whose large prestigious monuments, arches and gates, original forum and Severan forum, temples, baths, theatre, circus and amphitheatre, only occupy a very small part of the total area. Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC [/QUOTE] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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