In writing this book I felt as if I was putting into words thoughts that came from a consciousness that was reconstructing itself by using me to link together historical facts and scenes. It is as if Mother Earth is growing a cerebral cortex in the form of the Internet. As this cerebral cortex connects fragments of history into longer stories and narratives, the people who live in those stories reach out to those of us who can hear them. We all hear different stories. I heard this one. I came across Leptis Magna for the first time as a boy of eight years old in the year 1961 when my family liv...