Creating images in a changing world Today, it seems hard to imagine that the Sahara was once populated by people with large…
Discovered by British divers off the coast of Tobruk, Libya, in 1964, the Belgammel Ram would have been fixed to the upper…
Detailed analysis of a 2,000-year-old bronze warship ram has shed new light on how the object was created and used. Discovered by…
A research team led by the University of Bristol has found proof that dairy farming was practised in Saharan Africa 7,000 years…
The Garamantes of Fezzan: barbaric hut- and tent-dwelling nomads, or a civilisation of wealth and power?…
Libya’s heritage is in danger of being overlooked, warned Dr Hafed Walda, Libyan archaeologist at King’s College London and international advisor on…
The present uprising in Libya has focused the world’s attention on the region. But this part of North Africa has a troubled…
The Sirte Basin in northern Libya, the current battleground for Colonel Gaddafi’s troops and rebel civilian forces, is no stranger to conflict.…
The modern country of Libya – the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – encompasses one of the richest parts of the Roman…
Estimates for the date at which early migration out of sub-Saharan Africa occurred vary from 200,000 to 80,000 years ago, the older…
The oasis town of Ghadames is an architectural gem in western Libya. It once lay on the trans-Saharan trade-route described in the…
Archaeological insights on the city of Lepcis Magna in Libya from specialist Philip Kenrick…