See also: Troglodyte

In Antiquity, the Troglodytes train libyque people which lived in the South-west of Egypt, in the South of the Libya. Installed in anfractuosities of the rocks, in the solid mass of the Tibesti in the North of the Chad, they form the ethnos group of the Toubou S.

They are quoted by Hérodote.

Montesquieu in the Letters Persians, takes them as reference: There were in Arabia small people, called Troglodyte, who went down from these former Troglodytes who, if we believe the historians of them, resembled more animals than with hommes. It describes them like one unworthy people become virtuous , which it confirms then: I could not enough speak you about the virtue of the Troglodytes .