Africa
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Travellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911 [Paperback]
John Wright (Author)
$26.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9781900971133
Published by : Silphium Press
From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by the foreign visitors and travellers who experienced them fir... .... Learn More -
Oursi hu-beero: A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa [Paperback]
L. P. Petit (Author);M. von Czerniewicz (Editor);C. Pelzer (Editor);L. P. Petitm (Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9789088900679
Published by : Sidestone Press
This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi Hu-Beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, wa... .... Learn More -
Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 [Hardback]
J Freed (Author)
$96.00ISBN: 9781842179925
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
by Joann Freed
^DAdorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante... .... Learn More -
Catalogue of the Ethiopic Imaging Project: Volume 1: Codices 1-105, Magic Scrolls 1-134 [Paperback]
Getatchew Haile (Author); Melaku Terefe (Author)
$69.00ISBN: 9780227173503
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Series: EMIP
Volume: 1
The series Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies offers, in the first place, catalogues of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, whose purpose it is to digitize and catalogue collections of Ethiopic manuscripts in North America and ar... .... Learn More -
Early Christianity in North Africa [Paperback]
Francois Decret (Author)
$37.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780227173565
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Martyrs, exegetes, catechumens, and councils enlarge this study of North African Christianity, a region often reduced to its dominant patristic personalities. Smither provides English readers a quality translation of an important book that capture... .... Learn More -
Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project [Paperback]
Steve Delamarter (Author); Melaku Terefe (Author)
$69.00ISBN: 9780227173510
Published by : James Clarke & Co
Series: Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies
Volume: 1
This book is the companion volume to the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Volume 1: Codices 1-105, Magic Scrolls 1- 134.
It contains at least one plate for each of the 105 codices described in that volume.
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Money, Trade and Trade Routes in Pre-Islamic North Africa [Paperback]
Amelia Dowler (Editor); Elizabeth R. Galvin (Editor)
$40.00ISBN: 9780861591763
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 176
This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched throug... .... Learn More -
Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan [Paperback]
Kuel M. Jok (Author); Kuel M. Jok (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9789088900549
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern "Southern Sudan". It gives an account of how the animistic ritual performances of the divine chief-pries... .... Learn More -
Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 [eBook (epub)]
J. Freed (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9781842176726
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
by Joann Freed
^DAdorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante... .... Learn More -
Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859 [eBook (PDF)]
J. Freed (Author)
$48.00ISBN: 9781842176740
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Volume: 2
by Joann Freed
^DAdorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante... .... Learn More