From the earliest antiquity Berbers have inhabited Libya. They conquered Egypt in the 10th century B.C.and ruled it for about a hundred years. Sometime between the 10th and 5th centuries, the Garamantes, the people of Fezzan, established a loose commercial empire, serving as middlemen between the central Sahara region south of Fezzan and the Mediterranean coast.
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