The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also revealed new archaeological remains there ...

In the 7th century BCE, Greek colonists landed on the shores of eastern Libya and began scaling the hilly region now known as the Green Mountain. There they founded the city of Cyrene, a place ...

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 ...

Libya's ancient city of Cyrene survived Storm Daniel The extreme flash flooding spared the ruins of the ancient necropolis, but the damage to a number of other significant archaeological sites ...

The reconstruction of Derna is ongoing after 4,500 people died a year ago in Libya. On September 11, cyclone Daniel swept the region and two dams burst. The entire region of Cyrenaica’s ...

By Ayman al-Warfali CYRENE, Libya, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby ...

Back to homepage / Live news Fears for ancient Cyrene after Libya floods Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) – Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's ...

The flooding that killed thousands in Libya's Derna last month damaged the ruins at the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in the mountains nearby, but it also revealed new archaeological remains there ...