🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Augila Oasis Complex
Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic
Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Boreum
Roman (Augustan–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Syrtic frontier fort at Bu Grada lagoon terminus of limes road.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Barca (Al Marj / El Merj) – Pentapolis Interior Capital
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Agrarian interior capital of Pentapolis founded 560 BCE by Cyrene exiles, mother of Ptolemais port. Agora terrace, Amun temple, theatre and Hellenistic walls.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Phycus (Naustathmos)
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman (Cyrenaica)
Submerged roadstead at Ras al Hilal with quay blocks 2–4 m deep.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Artamis
Garamantian-Roman (1st c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Garamantian / Roman
Syrtis caravan bir station with Garamantian qanat interface.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Paliurus (El Agheila) – Syrtic Salt Post
Punic to Roman (5th c BCE – 5th c CE) · Punic / Roman (Tripolitania–Cyrenaica border)
Lonely Syrtis salt post at Syrtis Major's southernmost bay, Paliurus marks the dangerous coastal road's water point between Leptis and Berenice; still salt flats.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Hadrianopolis (Driana) – Cyrenaican Harbour Town
Hadrianic to Byzantine (125 CE – 7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine (Cyrenaica)
Hadrian's Cyrenaican harbour foundation with mole, basilica and cisterns, linking Pentapolis coastal road; Synesius epistles mention bishop.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Augila (Awjila / Aujila Oasis) – Herodotean Palmgrove
Garamantian / Roman · Libyan / Roman
Date-forest island famed since Herodotus for Ammonite pilgrim routes Siwa→Augila→Garama. Garamantian–Greco–Roman caravanserai with foggara traces and late-antique church; mudbrick town overlies souq.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Antipyrgos (Tobruk / Tubruq)
Greek / Roman / Byzantine · Greek / Roman
Natural rock-harbour of Marmarica, fortress-emporion of Cyrene facing Egypt, later Justinianic fort guarding Via Maris. Classical mole at -1.5 m visible snorkelling; WWII overlays.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Boreum (Buerat / Bū Grādah) – Syrtic Frontier
Roman / Byzantine · Roman
Customs fort marking Tripolitania–Cyrenaica boundary at Syrtis Major where road hugged sea past Arae Philaenorum. Fortlet with bath and cisterns praised by Sallust.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Zygri
Hellenistic to Roman (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Greek / Roman
Marmarica dye harbour with Hellenistic tower and cisterns.