Africa

ISBN: 9781900971157
Published by : Silphium Press
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407311449
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2526
This work presents contributions from South African, European, and North American authors working in academic and governmental institutions. Chapters provide latest regional syntheses and discuss diverse topics, such as Acheulean ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714150918
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: Objects In Focus
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first tr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971140
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Libya Archaeological Guides
This is the second volume in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles that of Greece or western Turkey. It was s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310893
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2477
At present scantily populated, Suakin was the most prominent port on the Red Sea coast from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was an archetype of an Islamic urban built town which remained continu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780227173848
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Series: EMIP
Volume: 2
The Catalog of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP), volume 2, provides a full catalog for EMIP codex numbers 106 through 200, and magic scrolls 135 through 284. Each catalog entry for the codices provides a full physical description,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780227173855
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Series: EMIP
Volume: 7
The Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP), volume 7, provides a full catalog for the collection of fifty-four manuscripts in the Meseret Sebhat Le-Ab collection at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. These incl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310671
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2459
This study for the first time provides an in-depth examination of the Butana Group ceramics that in turn represent a large sedentary development existing in the far reaches of the eastern Sahel during the 4th millennium BC. These particular ceram... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305882
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
A study of architecture and economies of Roman villas and their estates in North Africa, accompanied by a detailed catalogue. German text. .... Learn More