A view of Leptis Magna, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, some 120 km (75 miles) east of Tripoli, November 8, 2011. Libya was home to thriving Roman outposts beginning around the first century A.D. One Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, was born in Leptis Magna, on the site of the modern Libyan town of Khoms. He turned his hometown into a model Roman city and large parts of it are still intact. Picture taken November 8, 2011.
REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (LIBYA - Tags: SOCIETY CONFLICT) 

A view of Leptis Magna, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, some 120 km (75 miles) east of Tripoli, November 8, 2011. Libya was home to thriving Roman outposts beginning around the first century A.D. One Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, was born in Leptis Magna, on the site of the modern Libyan town of Khoms. He turned his hometown into a model Roman city and large parts of it are still intact. Picture taken November 8, 2011.
REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (LIBYA - Tags: SOCIETY CONFLICT) 

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR

A view of ruins of the ancient city of Leptis Magna in Al Khums, some 130km (81 miles) east of Tripoli, April 15, 2011. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (LIBYA - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY) 

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR

A view of ruins at the ancient city of Leptis Magna in Al Khums, some 130 km (81 miles) east of Tripoli April 15, 2011. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (LIBYA - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY)