Ancient peoples of Africa

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. They are primarily connected by their use of Berber languages, which are part of the Afroasiatic language family.

Copts (; ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Egypt who have inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egyptians. Copts predominantly follow the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Alexandrian Greek Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. They are the largest Christian population in Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan and Libya. Copts account for roughly 5 to 15 percent of the population of Egypt.

Nubians (Nobiin: Nⲟⲃⲓ̄, Arabic: النوبيون) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Nubia region, which stretches from southern Egypt to northern Sudan. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization. In the southern valley of Egypt, Nubians differ culturally and ethnically from Egyptians, although they intermarried with them and other ethnic groups, especially Arabs. They speak the Nilo-Saharan Nubian languages as their mother tongue, which are part of the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages, and Arabic as a second l

people from Ancient Carthage

thumb|From right to left an Egyptian, an Assyrian, a Nubian, and four Libu men, Heinrich Menu von Minutoli|Heinrich von Minutoli (1820) The Libu (; also transcribed Rebu, Libo, or Lebu) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of Berber origin, from which the name Libya derives.

thumb|Mechta skull excavated at Constantine, Algeria|Constantine, [[Algeria]]

ethnic group

thumb|300x270px|Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC. The Macrobians (Μακροβίοι) were a legendary people mentioned by Herodotus, speculated to have lived in the Horn of Africa. They were one of the peoples postulated by the Greeks to exist at the extremity of the known world; in this case, in the extreme south. This contrasts with the Hyperboreans, who were said to live in the extreme north.

300px|thumb|The former dwellings of the Tellem people by the Bandiagara Escarpment 200px|thumb|Black and white picture of a female figure with raised arm; 15th–17th century; wood (ficus, moraceae), sacrificial materials; height: 44.8 cm (17 in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)