One of the Roman Empire's most beautiful cities, Leptis Magna now lies neglected after a decade of civil war in Libya. Perched on a hillside above the Mediterranean, the UNESCO World Heritage site ...

ALBAWABA - Moves started by Libyan lawyers in London for the return of the columns taken from the Roman city of the Leptis Magna in present-day Libya and erected in the Great Park in Windsor. Leptis ...

CNN reported Tuesday morning that NATO ”refuses to rule out” bombing Roman ruins at Libya’s Leptis Magna, if it turns out that Moammar Gadhafi is hiding weapons there (as rebels claim). More from CNN: ...

Rebel commanders in the city of Misrata said that Libyan government troops had moved Grad rockets and munitions into the World Heritage Site, on the coast between Misrata and Tripoli, to avoid NATO ...

Libya’s civil war might be over, but the aftershocks of the revolution are still reverberating through the country. Just yesterday there was more violence in the capitol city of Tripoli. The fledgling ...

Believed to have been founded as early as the 7th century BC, Leptis Magna was one of the most beautiful and prosperous cities of the Roman world. Located in the ancient region of Tripolitania in ...

TIME’S four-color picture stories are the product of long, painstaking research and planning by editors, correspondents and photographers. This week’s color story in Art on Libya’s lost city of Leptis ...

A majestic but forgotten Roman city overlooking the Mediterranean in North Africa? It sounded too good to be true when I first read about Leptis Magna in an article by Geoff Dyer in Prospect magazine ...