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Libya accepted the convention on 13 October 1978. [3] There are five World Heritage Sites in Libya, with a further three on the tentative list. [3] The first three sites in Libya were added to the list in 1982 and the most recent one in 1986. [3] All five sites are listed due to their cultural significance.
There is an adjacent museum containing some treasures from Sabratha, but others can be seen in the national museum in Tripoli. In 1943, during the Second World War , archaeologist Max Mallowan , husband of novelist Agatha Christie , was based at Sabratha as an assistant to the Senior Civil Affairs Officer of the Western Province of Tripolitania .
However, the Mozabite Berbers of the M'zab Valley in the town of Ghardaïa in Algeria and some Libyan Berbers in the Nafusa Mountains and Zuwara are primarily adherents of Ibadi Islam. In antiquity, before the arrival of Abrahamic faiths into North Africa, the Berber people adhered to the traditional Berber religion .
With its multiple wings, the museum specializes in Berber history and area wildlife. [1] It includes archaeological remains from Ghadames dating to the Roman period, when it was named Cydamus . There are some column bases of a Roman temple in a section of the Museum.
Tassili n'Ajjer is a plateau in south-eastern Algeria at the borders of Libya and Nigeri, covering an area of 72,000 km 2. [2] It ranges from east-south-east to Its highest point is the Adrar Afao that peaks at 2,158 m (7,080 ft), located at
The protected area was set up to provide a habitat in which the native wild animals and plants of the area could flourish. The governmental body overseeing the protected area is the Technical Committee of Wildlife and National Parks which was created in 1990. [6] The oasis is visited by birds, especially waterfowl, during their annual migrations.
Linguist Roger Blench (2006) stated: “The Garamantes, whose empire in the Libyan Fezzan was overthrown by the Romans, wrote in a Libyan script, although we have no evidence they spoke Berber. What they did speak is open to conjecture; the most likely hypothesis is a Nilo-Saharan language, related either to Songhay or to Teda —the present ...
Despite the destruction of their states, Ibadi Islam remained a strong (if clandestine) faith among the Berbers of the Nafusa mountains for centuries after, down to the modern day. [3] The lingering heterodoxy of the Nafusa people has placed them frequently at odds, or under suspicion, by the largely orthodox Sunni population of the rest of Libya.