Leptis Magna is a UNESCO World Heritage site located about two hour's drive east of Tripoli. Its incredible arches, fountains and sculpted Medusa heads are spitting distance from the Mediterranean.

Libya is not an easy country to visit, but the magnificent Roman site of Leptis Magna makes it well worth the effort, says Annabel Simms. By Annabel Simms 29 November 2010 • 12:24am ...

The Leptis Magna is an ancient Roman ruin in Wadi Lebda on the shore of the Mediterrnean. Today, the ruins are in the city of Khoms that lie to the east of Tripoli in Libya. @christina_2018S Speak ...

A view of Leptis Magna, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, some 120 km (75 miles) east of Tripoli. A view of Leptis Magna, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the ...

Leptis Magna was bathed in sunshine as a cool breeze from the Mediterranean blew tumbleweeds in the majestic amphitheatre; and nearby, gunmen moved in the shadows of the arch of Septimus Severus.

Leptis Magna is just one of Libya’s remarkable Roman sites that Americans can visit, thanks to the recent years’ slowly warming relations between the U.S. and Libyan governments.

Al Khums, Libya Who would have thought that the uprisings in Tunisia last January would bring about such an upheaval in world history? The Arab Spring unrest this year spread through Egypt, Syria, ...

His birthplace, Leptis Magna—a commercial city 80 miles east of what the Phoenicians once called Oea, or present-day Tripoli—became, in every meaningful way, a second Rome.

Leptis Magna, Libya in 1976. (Thrifty Traveller pic) Today, that would probably be seen as a war crime under the Hague Convention but back in those days, it was common practice.

CNN reported Tuesday morning that NATO "refuses to rule out" bombing Roman ruins at Libya's Leptis Magna, if it turns out that Moammar Gadhafi is hiding weapons there (as rebels claim).