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Cyrene. Libya. Cut into a cliff faces overlooking the Green Mountain plateau and all around Cyrene are thousands of tombs and individual sarcophagi that were built and used from the 6th century BC by the Greeks, then added to by the Romans and Byzantines up to the 6th century AD. Some of the tombs which were quite spacious still contain traces of their distinctive Greek and Hellenistic facades. Unfortunately every visible tomb or sarcophagi has been robed and damaged either in Byzantine or early Islamic times. The Necropolis of Cyrene is one of the most extensive cemeteries in the ancient world and gives the most vivid impression of Cyrene’s Greek Heritage.