archaeological excavations in Libya had been paused due to civil war. But archaeologists were finally able to return to the country in 2023 and, while performing excavations in the ancient city of ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The bronze likeness of Muammar Qaddafi’s nemesis was lying on his back in a wooden crate shrouded in the darkness ...

The devastating floods caused by Storm Daniel in Libya led to an unexpected archaeological discovery: an ancient Greek tombstone made of limestone. Ancient Greek tombstone found in Libya ...

In ancient times, Libya was the name by which North Africa was broadly known. And in the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament of the Bible, the area is the setting for the story of Noah’s Ark.

Fifteen hundred years after the fall of the Garamantes, the Libyan government is now building the Great Man-Made River, a series of huge aqueducts to mine ancient underground water reserves below ...