British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies (BILNAS) is a membership body sponsored by @BritishAcademy_ We support scholars in Libya and the region
London, England
Joined January 2014
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Book Club: Mohammed Alnaas's award-winning Libyan novel explores masculinity, tenderness and the cost of conforming to society's expectations of manhood.
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Hellenistic and Roman-era portraits of Libyans from the "Sanctuary of Cyrene". These were most likely high-status and wealthy Libyans who were integrated into Cyrenean society. It shows that foreign origins and customs did not prevent social integration (from Hodos 2006)
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JIM 17/4 is out! Ibadi Manuscripts in Libya: Ibāḍī Manuscript Samples Documented by Ennami; Libyan Heritage in the Sormani Library (Milan) and the Archive of the Lincei (Rome); the Libraries of Nafusa Project; the Library of al-Mzābī; an Omani in Nafusa.
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BILNAS General Secretary, Dr Victoria Leitch, recently renewed her SOAS Library card – for FREE thanks to membership of BILNAS, which is just £30 per year.
So why not join BILNAS today to take advantage of this privilege, as membership of @SOASLibrary normally costs £200 p.a.?
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Daily life scenes in the extraordinary roman mosaic of Zliten in Libya. Dating back to the 2nd century. This fabulous opera was found in 1913-14, as part of the excavations of a Roman Villa, by the Italian Archaeologist Salvatore Aurigemma. It describes gladiator games, ANIMAL HUNTS and everyday life scenes. Preserved at the archaeological museum of Tripoli, Libya
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📢 BILNAS Archivist Vacancy
BILNAS is looking for an experienced Archivist to join the School of Heritage and Culture at the @uniofleicester, providing maternity leave cover for the internationally-significant BILNAS Archive.
For full details go to: jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1385…
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World famous Hunting Baths in Leptis Magna. Looked at the site with local Libyan colleagues and ASOR.org @AncientRomeLive
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The greatest archaeological museum you’ve never seen! Here’s a short intro to the Tripoli archaeology collection - and why I’m in Libya this week! @AncientRomeLive project, of course!
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Happy October. Sousse Roman mosaic showing October. From Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia
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Today: inside the magnificent new Tripoli archaeological museum, newly re-opened this year!
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Ancient Roman mosaics in Libya have been reburied after years of exposure, vegetation growth and deterioration threatened their survival.
At Sabratha, researchers covered the fragile 1,800-year-old floors with protective layers of soil, sand and gravel to preserve them.
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Italian university resumes archaeological work in eastern #Libya after 10-year hiatus lyo.ly/8gko
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It is important to understand that, paradoxically, the peoples of Algeria and Morocco are very different because they do not have the same history. Morocco was not part of the Punic, Numidian, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman civilizations; this represents 15 centuries of history!
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Mosaic of the Peacock from the ancient city of Timgad, circa 3rd century AD; on display at the Archaeological Museum of Timgad, Algeria.
#Algeria #Numidia #MosaicMonday
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Ulysses and the Sirens from the ancient city of Julia Caesarea, Algeria. The landlord who commissioned it might have read Cicero:"It was not the sweetness of their voices or the novelty and diversity of their songs, but their professions of knowledge that attracted the voyageurs"
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Fibonacci popularized the Arabic numeral system in the Western world through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci; and it's in the port city Béjaïa, Algeria, where Fibonacci learned the Arabic numerals from Muslim mathematicians and merchants in the late twelfth century.
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