ABSTRACT
The scenario of North Africa and the Middle East has been effected for decades of destruction caused by interminable conflicts, causing situations of collapse of urban settlements and civil society forced to live in conditions of perennial emergency.
Threats to the cultural heritage of many countries are the direct consequence of this situation.
Cultural heritage represents the symbol of the identity characters of a people and a nation, as well as in some cases the heritage of Humanity itself, as testimony of history, culture and traditions.
Its destruction, damage or dispersion is a serious loss that civil society must be aware of by activating all possible initiatives aimed at preventing and combating risks.
This contribution concerns Libya, one of the most unstable and problematic countries in the Mediterranean, briefly illustrating a path that traces the main stages of a history of destruction originated at the end of the Second World War in a temporal continuum that reaches the most recent dramatic phases.
