27 juin 2024
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Sébastien Garnier, « Surveying and documentation of the archaeological city of Barca (Al-Marj)/مشروع المسح الاثري لمدينة برقة », LibMed, ID : 10.58079/11wc6
Naser ALHARARI (Department of Antiquities, Benghazi, Libya) The city of Bārkī/Barca (al-Marǧ/El Merj) is located in the oriental part of Libya, Cyrenaica, about 100 km east from Euhesperides/Hesperis (Benghazi, today) — one of the five cities of the Pentapolis along with the above mentioned, Cyrene, Apollonia and Taucheira/Tocra. Founded around 570 BCE, we summarized its birth according to Herodotus, in the Fourth Book of his Histories, section 160/1: This Battus had a son Arcesilaus...