Two mountain ranges shape the geography of northern Libya: to the east, Jebel el Akhdar - the Green Mountain - rises in Cyrenaica a short distance from the coast, while the corresponding structure to the west, Jebel Gharbi (or Nefusa in Berber) covers the sublittoral belt of Tripolitania and forms a link between the Mediterranean coast and the Sahara desert. The Jebel preserves the remains of...