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Archaeological & historic sites in Libya

Libya has 28 archaeological & historic sites on Detourmap — ancient ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs, mines, battlefields and crash sites. The best known is Cyrene. All of them are below.

Archaeological
28
Oldest
Leptis Magna 700 BC
Little known
18 of 28
Most from
3rd century

Questions about this page

How many archaeological & historic sites are there in Libya?

28 on this map, out of 14,002 worldwide. That is what Wikidata records for Libya with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article — the real number on the ground is larger, and for some countries much larger.

What is the best known of the archaeological & historic sites in Libya?

Cyrene, 7th century BC. Ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya.

Which is the oldest?

Leptis Magna, dated to 700 BC. 10 of these 28 carry a founding date, 8 of them from before the year 1000.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Archaeological & historic sites elsewhere

United Kingdom1,708 United States1,519 Italy1,110 France997 Spain916 Greece506 Japan505 Germany462 Czech Republic455 Turkey394 Egypt263 Russia219

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