CyreneLegend Colonists from Thera, which is Santorini, sailed here in 631 BC under a leader called Battus and built what became the most important Greek city in Africa, on a green escarpment above the coast in what is now northeastern Libya.... Open it on the map · Read the story
GhadamesLegend An oasis town built so that you can cross it without going outside. The houses run in vertical layers: storage at ground level, family rooms above, and the alleys between them are roofed over, so the middle of the old town is... Open it on the map · Read the story
Leptis MagnaLegend A Roman city on the Libyan coast that survived because the desert buried it. Founded as a Punic settlement in the seventh century BC, it was made spectacular by Septimius Severus, who was born there and who from AD 193 rebuilt... Open it on the map · Read the story
SabrathaLegend A Phoenician trading post from around 500 BC on the Libyan coast, 70 km west of Tripoli, that got rich enough under Rome to double in size, and the theatre it built in the Severan period still has its full three-storey stage... Open it on the map · Read the story
The rock art of the Tadrart AcacusLegend Paintings and carvings made between about 12,000 BC and AD 100 run for a hundred kilometres of sandstone north from the Algerian border, in the western Sahara. The subjects are the point. Giraffes. Elephants. Ostriches. Cattle... Open it on the map · Read the story
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