https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs en-us 2017-03-31 15:36:38 UTC 2017-05-05 14:23:35 UTC hello@padlet.com hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170053516 The old port of Sabratha was set up by the Phoenicians in 500 BC. Rome took control in the second and third centuries AD and revamped the site. Today, what is left of it is a 3-storey theatre from the late third century and a few sanctuaries committed to Isis, Liber Pater, and Serapis. ]]> 2017-05-04 20:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170053516 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170053933 Tadrart Acacus also known as the Acacus Mountains is a mountain run in Ghat, Libya. It structures some piece of the Saharan Desert. There are many hole compositions and rock craft in the region, made in different styles. The area is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However recent efforts to explore underneath petroleum reserves have greatly harmed the area.]]> 2017-05-04 20:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170053933 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054069 Cyrene is the most seasoned and most paramount of all Greek urban communities in Libya. Libya’s traditional name, Cyrenaica, was determined from it. Cyrene turned into a Greek settlement in 630 BC yet inevitably turned into a Roman city in 96 BC.]]> 2017-05-04 20:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054069 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054209 Leptis Magna was the biggest city of old Rome in Libya. Magna was established in tenth century BC by Phoenicians and later turned into a Punic city. By 23 BC, it fit in with a Roman region in Africa. A standout amongst the most conspicuous structures left in the destroyed city is the theatre. ]]> 2017-05-04 20:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054209 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054388 The Jamhahiriya Museum is Libya’s national exhibition hall. Its 47 galleries are home to numerous curios of Libya’s verifiable past incorporating those from the Roman and Greek time of the nation’s history, fortunes recuperated from their World Heritage Sites and the memorabilia of their later political past]]> 2017-05-04 20:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054388 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054644 Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.]]> 2017-05-04 20:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054644 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054807 Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi, is the third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He is a Libyan former association football player. In 2011, he was the commander of Libya's Special Forces and was involved in the Libyan Civil War]]> 2017-05-04 20:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170054807 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055038 Amos Lavi was an Israeli stage and film actor. He won three Ophir Awards for the roles he played in the films Sh'Chur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina. Lavi was born in Libya in 1953.]]> 2017-05-04 20:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055038 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055261 Leonid Vasilyevich Solovyov was a Russian writer and playwright. Born in Tripoli, Syria where his father taught at the Russian consulate, he began writing as a newspaper correspondent for the Pravda Vostoka, published in Tashkent.]]> 2017-05-04 20:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055261 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055591 Don Coscarelli, Jr. is a Libyan-American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for horror films. His credits include the Phantasm series, The Beastmaster, and Bubba Ho-Tep.]]> 2017-05-04 20:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170055591 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170183817 The town of Dirj in Libya is a place for traditional Libyan culture. This little town reflects traditional Libyan culture way more accurately than many other old towns in Libya. It is considered as a little paradise right in the heart of the unforgiving desert. Within the town of Dirj, there is an abandoned old village of Old Dirj. Traditionally built houses that were constructed many years ago can be found in this village. It is one of the lesser known tourism places of Libya.]]> 2017-05-05 14:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170183817 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170185224 Ghadamès is an historic town located in an oasis in the desert near the border with Tunisia and Algeria. Once known as the 'Pearl of the Desert', Ghadamès was an important stopping of point in the trans-Saharan trade routes between Timbuktu and the Mediterranean and is renowned for unique layout and architecture.]]> 2017-05-05 14:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170185224 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170185801 The Acacus Mountains deep in the Libyan Sahara boasts extraordinary natural scenery as well as some of the best rock art found anywhere in the world. Amidst the shifting sands of the desert are deep canyons and some unique and bizarre rock formations. 1,300 rock art sites have so far been discovered which data back some 12,000 years.]]> 2017-05-05 14:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170185801 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170186593 Germa is an ancient city in the Sahara Desert which was once capital of the Garamantian Empire from approximately 900 BC to 500 AD. The Garamantes were a loose confederation of warlike nomadic tribes. The old town of Germa contains some ancient houses, temples and baths as well as a museum.

]]> 2017-05-05 14:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170186593 hsanch02 https://padlet.com/hsanch02/skcv4673i9hs/wish/170187318 The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the desert notable for the 11 salt water lakes known as Ramlat Dawada. The lakes, such as Gebraoun and Umm al-Maa, are beautiful palm-fringed oases that appear miraculously amidst the harsh desert environment.

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