The go may well have already been mainly because of the silting up with the lagoons, but there is no archaeological evidence for financial decrease within the previous period of time, and it is more very likely that the refoundation was punishment for getting opposed Berenice and Ptolemy's assum
The city was in hostile territory and was surrounded by inhospitable tribes. The Greek historian Thucydides mentions a siege of the city in 414 BC, by Libyans who have been in all probability the Nasamones: Euesperides was saved from the surprising arrival from the Spartan general Gylippus and his f