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Title: Libya's Roman heritage. (Focus on Archaeology).
Author: Julie Skurdenis
Publication: International Travel News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Martin Publications, Inc.
Volume: 27 Issue: 12 Page: 133(6)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Two thousand years ago, much of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean was Roman. The Romans -- like the Phoenicians and the Greeks before them -- gathered the riches of the African continent, filtering them northward along caravan routes to the seaports dotting the Mediterranean and thence to Rome. Among these riches were grain (North Africa was considered Rome's granary), wine, livestock, wild animals, gold and slaves. Today, the grandeur that was Rome lies strewn beside the Mediterranean, bearing mute testimony to almost six centuries of Roman dominance (roughly mid-second-century B.C. to mid-fifth-century A.D.). There are amphitheaters, theaters, mausoleums, triumphal arches, aqueducts, basilicas, baths, forums and villas as well as thousands of statues that once beautified these...
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