The dangers of wadi Leptis floods on the ancient city of lepta's Floods (1987-1988) is an example

Abstract

The study aims to know the dangers of the wadi Leptis floods on The ancient city of lepta's located about3km, east of the city of alkhoms, as it is one of the three ancient cities of lepta's magna, oia, and sobratah, which constited a cultural heritage and a significant economic resource, bypre preparing adata base on the morphometric characteristics of the wadi Leptis basin using… geographic information systems (GIS) software.to understand the reasons floods and presenting them to those challenging the decision to develop appropria  strategies to avoid their dangers to the  city's archaeological landmarks.Tochiave the objectives of the research, we  relied on the quantitative or mathematical (morphometric)approach to make measurements related to the dimensions of the basin  and its drainage network ,the descriptive analytical approach, and the historical approach, and presenting the history  of the to which the ancient city was exposed throughout history the extent of the possibility of their recurrence in the future, and conducting number of land marks, and presenting the results of the decision to develop appropria  strategies to avoid their dangers to the  city's archaeological landmarks of the research concluded with asset of results, the most important of which are the type of  morphometric characteristics of the valley, and  the  closeness of the shape of its basin to atriangular shape which increased the Frequency f of floods which pose a threat to the monuments of the nearby archaeological city located on both sides of the valley and the tip of itsmouth,in addition to the features most depicted by the floods in the area in the eastern  and central mountains and the best north -east of the city, with green degrees reaching120 ut of 15 degrees, and this is what you are on the ABC scale of fraud and risk.