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57 places in the atlas, 5 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic to Hellenistic (600–250 BCE) · Greek / Hellenistic
Abandoned c.250 BCE lagoon promontory synoecized to Berenice, preserved smash floors under sabkha.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (630 BCE–7th c CE) · Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Cyrene's port with double submerged harbour at -2.5 m, theatre and Governor's mosaics.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Archaic to Byzantine (631 BCE inland Cyrene; port 6th c. BCE – 7th c. CE Arab) · Dor Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Cyrene port on the Libyan limestone coast — moles and shipsheds now 2–4 m under crystal water at Marsa Susa after AD 365 quake.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek (Cyrenean) / Roman
Rock-cut shipsheds and breakwater on Phycus headland north of Cyrene.
🇱🇾 Libya · Temple complex
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Healing sanctuary of Asclepius with spring valley, temple, incubation theatre, stoa and sacred spring under eucalypts. Annual Asclepieia games; Pausanias lists oracle.
