Egypt and Libya, March 19 - April 2, 2006 / 20060331a_D_RomanStatuesJamahiriyaMuseum
Ruth Milner, rmilner plus web at bookofmarvels dot net
Dale posing with
a number of the Roman
statues found at Leptis Magna and now relocated to the museum in Tripoli.
The Jamahiriya Museum is housed in a building inside the old castle at
one corner of the medina. It has five floors, all of which are worth
looking at. We especially enjoyed the fourth floor section on Libya's
natural history.
The name "Jamahiriya" was coined by Qaddafi to
describe his design of Libya's political structure. Its literal translation
is "state of the masses", but including it in the country's official name
(Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) doesn't make it one.
