Leptis Magna's golden age was at the end of the 2nd century A.D., when a local boy named Septimius Severus made out good as you could get in those days by becoming the emperor of Rome.

If the gladiator mosaics are any indication, Libya's potential as a window into the Roman Empire's past has only just begun to be tapped: less than a third of Leptis Magna, a 1,500-acre site, has ...

It is also renowned, along with Leptis Magna for the mosaics discovered there. Cyrene Cyrene UNESCO/G. Boccardi ...

Leptis Magna is just one of Libya’s remarkable Roman sites that Americans can visit, thanks to the recent years’ slowly warming relations between the U.S. and Libyan governments.

But I will say that you should go to Leptis Magna now, before the chicken farmer goes down the route of battery hens. On a more serious footnote the mosaics of the nearby and charming Villa Silin ...

Dr Adel El-Turki, a visiting researcher in the Interface Analysis Centre, appears in next Monday's episode of the BBC Four documentary series 'The Treasures of Ancient Rome' showing presenter Alastair ...

“Leptis Magna is beautiful, the most beautiful Roman site outside Italy,” the 34-year-old doctor said, under a clear blue sky. “Yet it’s barely been discovered.” ...