British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies (BILNAS)
@bilnas.bsky.social
We are a research institute and membership body sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social. We support scholars in Libya and the northern African region. Come visit our website at bilnas.org
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📢 ATTENTION SCHOLARS 📢
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
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The new round of @bilnas.bsky.social grant applications has just opened and I am particularly pleased that a BILNAS-ACE small grant for research in Algeria will be available this year. Open to applicants of any nationality from the humanities and social sciences:
www.bilnas.org/research-act...
www.bilnas.org/research-act...
February 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The new round of @bilnas.bsky.social grant applications has just opened and I am particularly pleased that a BILNAS-ACE small grant for research in Algeria will be available this year. Open to applicants of any nationality from the humanities and social sciences:
www.bilnas.org/research-act...
www.bilnas.org/research-act...
📢 ATTENTION SCHOLARS 📢
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
February 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
📢 ATTENTION SCHOLARS 📢
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.
Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...
📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.
#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya
Ahmet Tekin is conducting archival research at @natarchivestrust.bsky.social as part of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) 'Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions' project, focusing on diplomatic correspondence sent from Ottoman territories to England.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Ahmet Tekin is conducting archival research at @natarchivestrust.bsky.social as part of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI) 'Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions' project, focusing on diplomatic correspondence sent from Ottoman territories to England.
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🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Photographs of Libyan Pottery Fragments in a museum setting.
The items were contained within an envelope labelled "Photos: Libyan Pottery (Provence Unknown)."
© BILNAS Archive: Cedric N. Johns Papers (2 May 1949 - 14 May 1969) BILNAS/D7/2/6
📸 Photographs of Libyan Pottery Fragments in a museum setting.
The items were contained within an envelope labelled "Photos: Libyan Pottery (Provence Unknown)."
© BILNAS Archive: Cedric N. Johns Papers (2 May 1949 - 14 May 1969) BILNAS/D7/2/6
January 22, 2026 at 4:50 PM
🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Photographs of Libyan Pottery Fragments in a museum setting.
The items were contained within an envelope labelled "Photos: Libyan Pottery (Provence Unknown)."
© BILNAS Archive: Cedric N. Johns Papers (2 May 1949 - 14 May 1969) BILNAS/D7/2/6
📸 Photographs of Libyan Pottery Fragments in a museum setting.
The items were contained within an envelope labelled "Photos: Libyan Pottery (Provence Unknown)."
© BILNAS Archive: Cedric N. Johns Papers (2 May 1949 - 14 May 1969) BILNAS/D7/2/6
Last week's BILNAS lecture by Prof Susannah Maidment of @nhm-london.bsky.social, 'Bizarre Dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for Armoured Dinosaur Evolution' is now available to stream on the BILNAS YouTube channel.
Click here to view the recording: youtu.be/YleuITbBlyg
Click here to view the recording: youtu.be/YleuITbBlyg
Bizarre Dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for Armoured Dinosaur Evolution
YouTube video by BILNAS
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January 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Last week's BILNAS lecture by Prof Susannah Maidment of @nhm-london.bsky.social, 'Bizarre Dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for Armoured Dinosaur Evolution' is now available to stream on the BILNAS YouTube channel.
Click here to view the recording: youtu.be/YleuITbBlyg
Click here to view the recording: youtu.be/YleuITbBlyg
📣 Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, Mon 13 –Tues 14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye.
ℹ️ Please note the deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 23 January 2026.
For more information visit our website at: bilnas.org/event/call-f...
ℹ️ Please note the deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 23 January 2026.
For more information visit our website at: bilnas.org/event/call-f...
Call for Papers for the “Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions” Symposium, 13-14 April 2026 Istanbul, Türkiye
Call for Papers
BILNAS, as part of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI), and in partnership with Sabancı University, invite paper proposals for a symposium organised as part of the "O...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:52 PM
📣 Call for Papers and Deadline Extension: "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, Mon 13 –Tues 14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye.
ℹ️ Please note the deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 23 January 2026.
For more information visit our website at: bilnas.org/event/call-f...
ℹ️ Please note the deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 23 January 2026.
For more information visit our website at: bilnas.org/event/call-f...
🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Aerial view of the Sabratha site, 1946-51.
Did you know that the unsung heroes of archaeology are often behind the camera? Meet Dorothy Nairn Marshall (1900-1992), a photographer and critical member of Kathleen Kenyon's team.
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📸 Aerial view of the Sabratha site, 1946-51.
Did you know that the unsung heroes of archaeology are often behind the camera? Meet Dorothy Nairn Marshall (1900-1992), a photographer and critical member of Kathleen Kenyon's team.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Aerial view of the Sabratha site, 1946-51.
Did you know that the unsung heroes of archaeology are often behind the camera? Meet Dorothy Nairn Marshall (1900-1992), a photographer and critical member of Kathleen Kenyon's team.
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📸 Aerial view of the Sabratha site, 1946-51.
Did you know that the unsung heroes of archaeology are often behind the camera? Meet Dorothy Nairn Marshall (1900-1992), a photographer and critical member of Kathleen Kenyon's team.
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Rare Roman Coin Reveals Historical Details about the Third Century AD in Libya
The coin was found in Qasr Al-Ajouz, near Daryanah, eastern Libya (historically Cyrenaica). The bronze coin dates back to the Emperor Gordian III who ruled the Roman Empire 238-244 AD.
libyaupdate.com/rare-roman-c...
The coin was found in Qasr Al-Ajouz, near Daryanah, eastern Libya (historically Cyrenaica). The bronze coin dates back to the Emperor Gordian III who ruled the Roman Empire 238-244 AD.
libyaupdate.com/rare-roman-c...
Rare Roman coin reveals historical details about the third century AD in Libya
Benghazi - Dr. Khaled Mohamed Al-Haddar revealed historical details. He is a faculty member in the Department of Archaeology at Benghazi University. The details
libyaupdate.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Rare Roman Coin Reveals Historical Details about the Third Century AD in Libya
The coin was found in Qasr Al-Ajouz, near Daryanah, eastern Libya (historically Cyrenaica). The bronze coin dates back to the Emperor Gordian III who ruled the Roman Empire 238-244 AD.
libyaupdate.com/rare-roman-c...
The coin was found in Qasr Al-Ajouz, near Daryanah, eastern Libya (historically Cyrenaica). The bronze coin dates back to the Emperor Gordian III who ruled the Roman Empire 238-244 AD.
libyaupdate.com/rare-roman-c...
Libya's National Museum: Inside the Daring Plan to Save its Past
Long before Libya's National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft.
READ: newarab.com/features/lib...
via @thenewarab.bsky.social
Long before Libya's National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft.
READ: newarab.com/features/lib...
via @thenewarab.bsky.social
Libya’s National Museum: Inside the daring plan to save its past
Long before Libya’s National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft
newarab.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Libya's National Museum: Inside the Daring Plan to Save its Past
Long before Libya's National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft.
READ: newarab.com/features/lib...
via @thenewarab.bsky.social
Long before Libya's National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft.
READ: newarab.com/features/lib...
via @thenewarab.bsky.social
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Libyan Studies Vol. 56 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @bilnas.bsky.social
@carolinebarron.bsky.social
@carolinebarron.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Libyan Studies Vol. 56 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @bilnas.bsky.social
@carolinebarron.bsky.social
@carolinebarron.bsky.social
Prof Susannah Maidment, Principal Researcher in Fossil Reptiles at the @nhm-london.bsky.social, will be delivering the next BILNAS lecture on Tuesday 13 January, at 5pm. This promises to be a fascinating presentation. Follow this link for more info and to register:
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
Bizarre Dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for Armoured Dinosaur Evolution by Susannah Maidment
The Middle Jurassic is a critical time in the evolution of the dinosaurs because it witnessed the radiation of many groups, giving rise to a diversity of familiar forms such as the plated stegosaurs a...
www.bilnas.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Prof Susannah Maidment, Principal Researcher in Fossil Reptiles at the @nhm-london.bsky.social, will be delivering the next BILNAS lecture on Tuesday 13 January, at 5pm. This promises to be a fascinating presentation. Follow this link for more info and to register:
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year from everyone at BILNAS 🎉
Start the New Year by becoming a BILNAS member or support us through donations!
For membership visit our website at: bilnas.org/membership/
For donations and sponsorship opportunities: bilnas.org/donations/
Here's to a great 2026!
Start the New Year by becoming a BILNAS member or support us through donations!
For membership visit our website at: bilnas.org/membership/
For donations and sponsorship opportunities: bilnas.org/donations/
Here's to a great 2026!
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year from everyone at BILNAS 🎉
Start the New Year by becoming a BILNAS member or support us through donations!
For membership visit our website at: bilnas.org/membership/
For donations and sponsorship opportunities: bilnas.org/donations/
Here's to a great 2026!
Start the New Year by becoming a BILNAS member or support us through donations!
For membership visit our website at: bilnas.org/membership/
For donations and sponsorship opportunities: bilnas.org/donations/
Here's to a great 2026!
🎅 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
📸 Christmas Day 1910 at Lepcis Magna, shows DeCou, Norton, Hoppin, Curtis, Mott, Camillieri, Sladden and George Morgan.
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📸 Christmas Day 1910 at Lepcis Magna, shows DeCou, Norton, Hoppin, Curtis, Mott, Camillieri, Sladden and George Morgan.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🎅 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
📸 Christmas Day 1910 at Lepcis Magna, shows DeCou, Norton, Hoppin, Curtis, Mott, Camillieri, Sladden and George Morgan.
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📸 Christmas Day 1910 at Lepcis Magna, shows DeCou, Norton, Hoppin, Curtis, Mott, Camillieri, Sladden and George Morgan.
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Reminds me of this wonderful video interview we recorded with Joyce (her last?) for a very special @bsrome.bsky.social / @bilnas.bsky.social workshop a few years ago. Her reflections on early post-war BSR days, and working with Ward-Perkins in North Africa are amazing.
youtu.be/-cHRfEaBhnU?...
youtu.be/-cHRfEaBhnU?...
Understanding Ancient Tripolitania: Research, Partnerships & Knowledge Sharing (BSR/BILNAS Workshop)
YouTube video by British School at Rome
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December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reminds me of this wonderful video interview we recorded with Joyce (her last?) for a very special @bsrome.bsky.social / @bilnas.bsky.social workshop a few years ago. Her reflections on early post-war BSR days, and working with Ward-Perkins in North Africa are amazing.
youtu.be/-cHRfEaBhnU?...
youtu.be/-cHRfEaBhnU?...
BILNAS is proud to have co-sponsored the international conference “Pottery Production and Circulation in Northern Africa from Late Antiquity to the Post-Medieval Period,” which took place earlier this month, 2-4 December 2025.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
BILNAS is proud to have co-sponsored the international conference “Pottery Production and Circulation in Northern Africa from Late Antiquity to the Post-Medieval Period,” which took place earlier this month, 2-4 December 2025.
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🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Photographs Relating to Roman Morocco Expedition Report.
The photos were contained within an envelope with the manuscript label "B. Roman Morocco - Expedition Report." Several of them feature manuscript notes on verso 32.
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📸 Photographs Relating to Roman Morocco Expedition Report.
The photos were contained within an envelope with the manuscript label "B. Roman Morocco - Expedition Report." Several of them feature manuscript notes on verso 32.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
📸 Photographs Relating to Roman Morocco Expedition Report.
The photos were contained within an envelope with the manuscript label "B. Roman Morocco - Expedition Report." Several of them feature manuscript notes on verso 32.
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📸 Photographs Relating to Roman Morocco Expedition Report.
The photos were contained within an envelope with the manuscript label "B. Roman Morocco - Expedition Report." Several of them feature manuscript notes on verso 32.
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Libya's National Museum in Tripoli, housed in the Red Castle, has reopened for the first time since the 2011 uprising. It showcases 5,000 years of Libyan history. #Libya #News
Museum housing Libya's ancient treasures reopens for first time since 2011 uprising that toppled Gadhafi
Libya's National Museum in Tripoli, housed in the Red Castle, has reopened for the first time since ...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
Sheila Gibson Cyrene drawings, this one shows a frieze section from Cyrene.
Sheila Gibson (1920-2002) occupied a special place in the worlds of archaeology and art by virtue of her extraordinary gifts as an architect and draughtsperson.
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Sheila Gibson Cyrene drawings, this one shows a frieze section from Cyrene.
Sheila Gibson (1920-2002) occupied a special place in the worlds of archaeology and art by virtue of her extraordinary gifts as an architect and draughtsperson.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
Sheila Gibson Cyrene drawings, this one shows a frieze section from Cyrene.
Sheila Gibson (1920-2002) occupied a special place in the worlds of archaeology and art by virtue of her extraordinary gifts as an architect and draughtsperson.
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Sheila Gibson Cyrene drawings, this one shows a frieze section from Cyrene.
Sheila Gibson (1920-2002) occupied a special place in the worlds of archaeology and art by virtue of her extraordinary gifts as an architect and draughtsperson.
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Thanks to all who attended the Libya-UK Reception: Celebrating Collaboration in Business, Culture & Heritage, with the LBBC and BILNAS
This brought together organisations and individuals passionate about strengthening Libya-UK relations.
Professor Anna Leone presented the work of BILNAS...
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This brought together organisations and individuals passionate about strengthening Libya-UK relations.
Professor Anna Leone presented the work of BILNAS...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks to all who attended the Libya-UK Reception: Celebrating Collaboration in Business, Culture & Heritage, with the LBBC and BILNAS
This brought together organisations and individuals passionate about strengthening Libya-UK relations.
Professor Anna Leone presented the work of BILNAS...
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This brought together organisations and individuals passionate about strengthening Libya-UK relations.
Professor Anna Leone presented the work of BILNAS...
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Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!
Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Race & the representation of the other
Mon 15 Dec, 4pm, Senate House
Full details: shorturl.at/dbH6p
Speakers include: Hardeep Dhindsa (Birmingham Museums Trust), Mai Musié (UoL), Eleanor Newman (Oxford), Joseph Skinner (Newcastle)
Mon 15 Dec, 4pm, Senate House
Full details: shorturl.at/dbH6p
Speakers include: Hardeep Dhindsa (Birmingham Museums Trust), Mai Musié (UoL), Eleanor Newman (Oxford), Joseph Skinner (Newcastle)
Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Race and the representation of the other
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December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!
Two 7,000-year-old mummified women from a rock shelter in southern Libya, discovered with strange DNA profiles, are pushing scientists to rethink how ancient North Africa was populated.
Two 7,000-year-old mummified women discovered with strange DNA profiles
Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.
www.earth.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two 7,000-year-old mummified women from a rock shelter in southern Libya, discovered with strange DNA profiles, are pushing scientists to rethink how ancient North Africa was populated.
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
📸 Winged Victor at the Severan Arch at Lepcis Magna.
This photograph features a manuscript note on verso "a winged victory from the triumphant arch at Lepcis built by the Emperor Severus (c.200 AD), which we may rebuild some day.”
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📸 Winged Victor at the Severan Arch at Lepcis Magna.
This photograph features a manuscript note on verso "a winged victory from the triumphant arch at Lepcis built by the Emperor Severus (c.200 AD), which we may rebuild some day.”
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December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
📸 Winged Victor at the Severan Arch at Lepcis Magna.
This photograph features a manuscript note on verso "a winged victory from the triumphant arch at Lepcis built by the Emperor Severus (c.200 AD), which we may rebuild some day.”
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📸 Winged Victor at the Severan Arch at Lepcis Magna.
This photograph features a manuscript note on verso "a winged victory from the triumphant arch at Lepcis built by the Emperor Severus (c.200 AD), which we may rebuild some day.”
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🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
☠️ Image 1: Black and white photograph of Tomb D at Tocra. There is a collection of skulls, bones and pottery arranged on a stone slab in the centre of the image, in front of the entrance to the tomb.
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☠️ Image 1: Black and white photograph of Tomb D at Tocra. There is a collection of skulls, bones and pottery arranged on a stone slab in the centre of the image, in front of the entrance to the tomb.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives
☠️ Image 1: Black and white photograph of Tomb D at Tocra. There is a collection of skulls, bones and pottery arranged on a stone slab in the centre of the image, in front of the entrance to the tomb.
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☠️ Image 1: Black and white photograph of Tomb D at Tocra. There is a collection of skulls, bones and pottery arranged on a stone slab in the centre of the image, in front of the entrance to the tomb.
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📢 Just one week to go until this year's BILNAS Annual Lecture:
"The Making of Medieval Morocco – State-Building and Everyday Life on the Edge of Empire" by Prof Corisande Fenwick.
See below for more details and follow this link to reserve your spot: tinyurl.com/3t6w4yzu
See you all there!
"The Making of Medieval Morocco – State-Building and Everyday Life on the Edge of Empire" by Prof Corisande Fenwick.
See below for more details and follow this link to reserve your spot: tinyurl.com/3t6w4yzu
See you all there!
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📢 Just one week to go until this year's BILNAS Annual Lecture:
"The Making of Medieval Morocco – State-Building and Everyday Life on the Edge of Empire" by Prof Corisande Fenwick.
See below for more details and follow this link to reserve your spot: tinyurl.com/3t6w4yzu
See you all there!
"The Making of Medieval Morocco – State-Building and Everyday Life on the Edge of Empire" by Prof Corisande Fenwick.
See below for more details and follow this link to reserve your spot: tinyurl.com/3t6w4yzu
See you all there!