Tadrart Acacus Rock-Art Sites, Libya

TADRART ACACUS ROCK-ART SITES (Libya)

A rocky group of mountains in the Sahara, on the borders of the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, has thousands of cave paintings in many different styles, dating from 12,000 BCE to 100 CE, exhibiting marked changes in the area's flora and fauna (giraffes, elephants, ostriches, and camels), as well as the changing lifestyles of the area's human populations.

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Leptis Magna

LEPTIS MAGNA (near Tripoli, Libya)

81 miles east of Tripoli in Libya stands one of the best-preserved Roman sites in the Mediterranean. A prominent city of Carthage and later Roman Libya, Emperor Septimius Severus (reigned 193-211), was born there in 145. It fell to the Vandals in 439; was restored in 533, it never recovered its former importance, fell to Muslim invasion in 647, and was abandoned.

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