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 ...

Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and later became emperor. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman Empire, with its imposing public ...

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 ...

When the emperor Septimius Severus paraded into Leptis Magna in 203AD the locals erected a ceremonial arch. They dressed it in marble and bronze and slapped on a toadying frieze to flatter him and his ...

Al Khums, Libya Who would have thought that the uprisings in Tunisia last January would bring about such an upheaval in world history? The Arab Spring unrest this year spread through Egypt, Syria, ...