Libu

[1] Their tribal origin in Ancient Libya is first attested in Egyptian language texts from the New Kingdom, especially from the Ramesside Period.

In the Great Karnak Inscription, the pharaoh Merneptah describes the Libu as men with pale complexion, tattooed, and with dark hair and eyes.

[citation needed] Hostilities between Egypt and Libya broke out in regnal year 5 (1208 BCE), but the coalition of Libu and Sea Peoples led by the chief of the Libu Meryey was defeated.

[7] Geographically, the name of this tribe was adopted by the Greeks for "Cyrenaica" as well as for northwestern Africa in general.

[10] Those rulers soon formed a dynasty, and they often had local "Chiefs of the Ma(shuash)" as their subordinates.

From right to left an Egyptian, an Assyrian, a Nubian, and four Libu men, Heinrich von Minutoli (1820)
A faience tile from the throne of Pharaoh Ramesses III depicting a tattooed ancient Libyan chief ( c. 1184 to 1153 BC).
Vanquished Libyan. Bronze inlaid with gold and silver, reign of Rameses II (19th Dynasty) 1279–1213 BCE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)
Libyan Princes from the Tomb of Seti, as seen by Oric Bates