The site

Leptis Magna stands at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda on the Libyan coast, founded as a Punic settlement before 500 BC and later a prominent city of Roman Libya. Its greatest expansion came under Emperor Septimius Severus, who was born here. Abandoned after the 7th-century Muslim conquest, Leptis lay remarkably preserved beneath sand dunes until Italian archaeologists unearthed its ruins in the 1920s. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Field notes

civilizations

RomanPhoenician-Punic

types

City · Port

built

700 BCE

occupied

700 BCE — 637 CE

country

Libya