Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and a ...

Previously hidden structures in an ancient Greek city were revealed by the devastating flooding that struck Libya last month. The structures unexpectedly appeared at the archaeological site of Cyrene, ...

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo in the ancient city of Cyrene, in eastern Libya's Jebel Akhdar region, February 2022. ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP The ruins of the ancient Hellenic necropolis of Cyrene, the ...

CYRENE, Libya : The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also revealed new archaeological ...

In the 7th century BCE, Greek colonists landed on the shores of eastern Libya and began scaling the hilly region now known as the Green Mountain. There they founded the city of Cyrene, a place that ...

Much of the news broadcast from Libya these days features the ungentle sounds of war. But even in the throes of the Libyan uprising, oases of calm can be found. One of these is Cyrene, looming over ...

The immediate damage to the monuments of Cyrene, which include the second century AD Temple of Zeus, bigger than the Parthenon in Athens, is relatively minor but the water circulating around their ...