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Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica. Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar ...
The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. I-VII. Philadelphia: 1990, 1990. Print. Review: Shelby Brown: The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya: Background and Introduction to the Excavations by Donald White. American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 90, No. 3 (July, 1986), pp. 358–360.
Earliest traces of Cyrene date back to about 700 BC, it is considered to be the oldest and largest Greek colony in eastern Libya. [2] It is believed that the ancient, now extinct plant Silphium only grew in the Cyrene region. [4] In 2013 the local archaeology professor Ahmed Hussein from Bayda University noted: [2]
Cyrenaica Archaeological Project. Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica Archived 18 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Lexiorient.com's article on Cyrenaica. Dynamic map of Cyrenaica on Google Maps. Worldstatesmen.org's History and list of rulers of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica. Hostkingdom.net's History and list of rulers of Cyrenaica.
The building was heavily damaged when Cyrene was sacked by Jewish fighters during the Kitos War in 115 AD. Archaeological evidence shows that at least 46 of the columns of the outer colonnade were undermined, by cutting away the crepidoma underneath them, inserting temporary wooden struts under the columns and then setting them on fire, causing ...
The Archaeological Site of Ptolemais: Marj District: 2020 ii, iii, iv (cultural) Ptolemais was founded as a Greek colony in the 7th century BCE. It was one of the five important cities that formed the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica. It flourished during the Hellenistic and later Roman periods and in the 4th century surpassed Cyrene that was damaged by ...
Cyrene Antiquity Museum is an archaeological museum located in Shahhat, Libya. It contains several statues and mosaics from the ancient Greek and later Roman city Cyrene. [1] According to a multi level research, four out of 200 statues at Cyrene Antiquity museum have previously been identified as dolomitic marble from the northern Aegean island ...
It was founded in 7th-century BC, and the predecessor of the larger and more monumental Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, which was founded somewhat later. Initially, it was a small temple, hypaethral , and consisting of a peribolos wall and two altars.