In the once-thriving Greco-Roman city of Ptolemais, situated on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, Polish archaeologists have ...

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Ruins of the ancient city of Ptolemais in Libya ... such as the carved faces in the Slonta sanctuary south of Cyrene. This connection could indicate that the residence’s owner, or at least those ...

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The ancient Greeks named the world’s first created ... Queen Pheretime, a sixth-century B.C. ruler from Cyrene (in modern-day Libya) took revenge on her son’s killers by having them impaled ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman villa in the ancient city of Ptolemais, located in present-day Libya. Among the ...

It is known that Ptolemais is located in Cyrenaica, a historical region in modern northeastern Libya. According to historians ...

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Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting ...

Three of the coins are particularly rare: They portray Eugenius, an illegitimate emperor who reigned for just two years in the late fourth century C.E. Sonja Anderson The blast took place in the ...