The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

As they fled on the coast road around the rim of Cyrenaica toward Marshal Graziani’s main fortified base at Tobruch, 70 miles west, the R. A. F. and the mechanized British attacked them and ...

Ptolemais - one of the largest ancient cities Ptolemais, one of the largest ancient Greek cities, is located in Cyrenaica in northeastern Libya. The city was founded by Egyptian kings of the ...

AP Photo The huge Sunderland flying boat soon began to break up and was left to the mercy of the sea, somewhere near apollonian in Cyrenaica, Libya, Jan. 31, 1942. As the men shivered while drying ...

Ptolemais - one of the largest ancient cities Ptolemais, one of the largest ancient Greek cities, is located in Cyrenaica in northeastern Libya. The city was established by Egyptian kings of the ...