| AdminHistory | Leptis Magna (also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna), also called Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea. It was saved from probable destruction in 1943 when British archaeologists Major John Ward-Perkins and Mortimer Wheeler saved the city from becoming a RAF radar post.
Wheeler spent the early years of the Second world War in Britain and in north Africa, raising and training the 48th light anti-aircraft battery which swelled into the 42nd Royal Artillery regiment. |