The people of Leptis Magna rescued him and brought him back home.” ... The ancient Greek and Roman sites of Libya meant nothing to him. He equated the ruins with the Italian occupiers.

The spectacular ruins of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene survived Libya's 2011 revolution and an ensuing decade of lawlessness, but today they face new threats: plunder and bulldozers.

Luis Ouriach. Libya's descent into chaos since the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 has given rise to looting of cultural treasures and the damaging of ancient sites, such as the Karamanli ...

Vandalism and neglect haunt Libya's ancient heritage sites. Reuters 2018-10-23T15:03:01Z ... The challenge is worsened by a law in 2013 that allowed people to reclaim land confiscated under Gaddafi.

The United States on Thursday returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its heritage against the backdrop of years of war, ...

Polish archaeologists returned to the ancient city of Ptolemais in Libya to resume research after a 13-year interruption due ...

The farmers simply couldn't get over it. Everybody agreed: those bones were far too large to belong to a cow. It was 1998 when the first dinosaur remains were discovered in Libya and it was in ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the ancient ruins of the Greek and Roman city of Cyrene, in Shahhat, Libya February 9, 2019. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori By Ulf Laessing CYRENE, Libya (Reuters ...

An abandoned and ancient synagogue in Libya is being turned into an Islamic religious center without permission, the World Organization of the Jews of Libya said.