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 ...

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the head of the French archaeological mission in Libya, Vincent Michel, told AFP. Settled from the Greek island of Santorini around 600 BC, Cyrene was one of the leading centres of the Classical ...

The floods that killed more than 5,000 people in Libya in early September damaged the ruins of Cyrene, a 2,600-year-old Greek settlement in the mountains above the devastated city of Derna.

A colony of the Greeks of Thera, Cyrene was one of the principal cities in the Hellenic world. It was Romanized and remained a great capital until the earthquake of 365. A thousand years of history is ...

Cyrene was a Greek colony and one of the principle cities of the ancient Hellenic world before becoming a major centre under the Romans until an earthquake destroyed it in the year 365.

CYRENE, Libya : 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 ...