Libya
There are 115 items in Libya:
Herodotus, bk 4, logos 12
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius I the Great, culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…Janzur
Janzur: site of a beautiful ancient tomb in Libya. Priest pooring a libation About ten kilometers west of modern Tripoli (ancient Oea), along…
Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Libyan |
Map of Cyrenaica |
Mons Ater (Gebel as-Soda)
Gebel as-Soda: the "black mountain", a part of the Libyan desert, in Antiquity known as Mons Ater. Gebel as-Soda The Gebel as-Soda…Ophellas
Ophellas (c.355-308): Macedonian officer, served under Alexander the Great and Ptolemy.Ophellas was born in Pella as the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Silenus. He was probably educated at the court of king Philip II (359-336) and queen Olympias, because…
Inscription from Oubari |
Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Libyans |
Petrified forest |
Qanat
Qanat: type of underground irrigation canal between an aquifer on the piedmont to a garden on an arid plain. The word is Arabic, but the system is best known from Iran. …
Qasr Banat, Dam |
Qasr Banat, Farm, interior |