Cyrene

During the seventh century BC, the Greek world sought to explore and establish colonies throughout the Mediterranean coast. One of the rather earlier waves of Greek colonization took place in Libya. The tale of the Greeks in the region...

In a stream, an archaeologist working in the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in todays Libya, found the head of the statue of Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek, the god of wine and theater. Archaeology in ancient Greek...

Floods that killed thousands in Libya also inundated parts of Cyrene, the ancient Greek city and the region's sole UNESCO-listed site threatening the monuments with collapse, archaeologists warn. At the same time, however, the floods revealed new structures. The Libyan...

Cyrene was an ancient Greek and later Roman city in Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region.

After a long legal battle, London’s British Museum returned last week a looted ancient Greek statue of the goddess Persephone to Libya