Leptis Magna,one of the best–preserved cities of antiquity.Phoenician merchants around the beginning of the first of Millennium B.C founded it.The great Emperor Severus born in Leptis in 145 AD turned his attention to his native city making substantial changes which every visitor could witness.
There is Arch of Septimius Severus in the site ,standing at the begning of the main north–south street the Cardo Maximus,where this intersects the east west street the Decumanus Maximus,dedicated to the Severus built in 203 A.D to celebarate the arrival of the great Emperor,to the Palastra a place for sport and games which is parallal to the Baths of Hadrian built in 126-127,remodeled in the time of the Emperor Commodus 180-192, continue to the Nymphaeum and the Street of Colonnades,built under Severus and dedicated to the nymphs,it is a semicirular construction containing a pool and fountain,and surrounded by walls,to the Severus Forum and the adjoining Basiltca which are the major extant large-scale building in Leptis vally,sheltered from the sea by rocks to the north and east,continue with the Old forum which dated to the beginning of the imperial era,in the northern corner of the forum are the remains of tiles from their time of the Emperor Augustus 30 B.C–14A.D during the governship of Calpurnius.
Amphitheater built in the period of Nero around the year 56 A.D on a natural slope of soft sandstone.It was renovated and enlarged in the 2nd century A.D and again under the Severus.near the Amptheatre was a small temple of the famous Artimes,or Dlana,of Ephesus in Westren Asia.
