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 ...

CYRENAICA, LIBYA—Archaeologist and blogger Areej Khattab reports that people living near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cyrene have destroyed part of its necropolis. Using earth movers, the farmers ...

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 ...

Investigators said the sculpture, a depiction of a veiled woman, had been stolen decades ago from a temple at Cyrene, which was once part of ancient Greece. By Tom Mashberg Looters and vandals have ...

Libya has faced no shortage of social, political, and economic challenges since its uprising. The latest crisis concerns the country's rich historical and archaeological heritage. The Cyrene ...

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 ...