The Ptolemaic Dynasty was founded in Egypt in 305 BCE by Ptolemy Soter, a Macedonian general who served Alexander the Great of Greece during his earlier invasion of Egypt, which liberated the country ...

The Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa and I agreed to meet by the Arch of Marcus Aurelius, in the heart of Tripoli. I was there a few minutes early and walked toward the familiar structure in that invisible ...

One could be forgiven for thinking, at various points over the past year, that the global art industry was approaching an existential breaking point, Tim Schneider writes in the Art Newspaper. A ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has finalized an agreement to transfer ownership of its ancient "Statue of a Man" to Libya. Officials from the CMA and the Libyan government held a ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Department of Antiquities of the state of Libya announced an agreement “in principle” on Wednesday, May 29, on the transfer of a Ptolemaic statue to the state of ...

A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic dynasty. Now, it’s finally set to return to Libya, where it was looted during British ...

Vandalised rock art is pictured at Tadrart Acacus May 30, 2014. REUTERS/Aimen Elsahli By Ulf Laessing TADRART ACACUS Libya (Reuters) - Vandals have destroyed prehistoric rock art in lawless southern ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLEVELAND (WJW) – An ancient statue at the ...

In an unfinished building in a downtrodden neighbourhood of Tripoli, Solomon Gebreyonas Alema, a 29-year-old Eritrean refugee, can be found most days sketching and painting. One small room in the ...