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🎥 Bringing Libya’s Past to the Screen – Ancient Adventures: Libya Just one week to go until this exclusive screening and Q&A with producer/director Bill Locke. 📆 Friday 27 March, 6.30-9.00pm 📍 @BritishAcademy_ London 📇 To book your spot go to: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bringing-lib…

🏛 'Preserving the Past, Envisioning the Future: Libya’s Heritage in Focus' Join us for this collaborative workshop dedicated to exploring Libya’s rich heritage. 📆 Tuesday 21 April, 2pm–5pm 📍 King’s College London. – with @MarEA_project, @KingsCollegeLon, @ALIPHFoundation

2/2 File includes photographs showing Naima, including dunes near Naima, and Wadi Maymun. The photographs are numbered 1–28 but 4, 6 and 16 are absent. © BILNAS Archive: Charles Daniels Papers on Fezzan and other locations in Libya BILNAS/D24/15/7 (1), (2) and (3).

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives There is a radiant brilliance captured in these old slides. This collection titled "Photos taken Spring 1977" includes photographs showing Naima’s incredible landscapes, from the soft, rolling dunes to the rugged beauty of Wadi Maymun. 1/2

3/3 Read the full collection here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… To sign up for Libyan Studies, you need to be a member of BILNAS. For membership details please email the BILNAS General Secretary at: gensec@bilnas.org or visit our website at: bilnas.org/membership/how…

2/3 Follow this link to access the article: cambridge.org/core/journals/… This is part of a curated collection of articles on pottery from Libyan Studies. Where not already Open Access, articles will be free to access until Tuesday 31 March 2026.

BILNAS presents its Libyan Studies Paper of the Month: "Northern Libyan Desert Ware: New Thoughts on ‘Shell-tempered Ware’ and other handmade pottery from the Eastern Marmarica (north-west Egypt)" – by Anna-Katharina Rieger and Heike Möller. 1/3

3/3 🌼 David Hopkins was a talented illustrator who worked on many Society for Libyan Studies (BILNAS) excavations. © BILNAS Archive: David Hopkins Papers BILNAS/D50/5/1; BILNAS/D50/5/1 (2); BILNAS/D50/5/4

2/3 🌼 Libyan Flower Photos (Apollonia) and Libyan Flower Photos (Tolemeita); Photographs of flowers in the wild. Originally housed in an envelope with a note: 'Libyan flower photos - Apollonia (2007)' and 'Libyan flower photos - Tolemeita (2007)'.

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives 🌼 As Spring awakens, we’re revisiting Libya’s vibrant coast through the lens of the late David Hopkins. In 2007, while documenting Apollonia and Tolemeita, David captured these stunning wildflowers. 1/3

2/2 It is always a pleasure to host researchers interested in Libyan and North African heritage. We look forward to seeing how these records contribute to Niccolò's ongoing research. © BILNAS Archive: Dr. Niccolò Mugnai

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives The BILNAS Archive recently welcomed Dr. Niccolò Mugnai, Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen and specialist in North African archaeology, who researched our photographic materials related to Sabratha and Tripoli (ancient Oea).

BBC Oceans presenter Prof Lucy Blue, who co-directs the Endangered Maritime Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (MarEA) Project, has been appointed President of the Nautical Archaeology Society. – with @MarEA_project allatsea.co.uk/news/bbc-ocean…

Morocco: ancient fossils shed light on a key period in human evolution READ: theconversation.com/morocco-ancien… via @TC_Africa

📢 We've extended the deadline for our Wyvern-BILNAS Fellowship Grant, which provides up to £12K to support writing-up research within the framework of Contact Between Byzantine Africa and other Regions. 📆 New deadline: Friday 6 March. For more details: bilnas.org/research-activ…

📢 Attention Scholars! There are just THREE DAYS left until the deadline for this year's BILNAS grant applications. Visit the GRANTS page of our website for full details of all our grants and for application forms: bilnas.org/research-activ… 📆 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026

📣 BILNAS is launching its new curated articles collections from its Libyan Studies Journal with @CambUP_Archaeo 📖 Read the first of these collection, on Pottery, here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… ℹ️ Where not already Open Access, articles will be free to read until Tues 31 March.

2/2 The deposit provides vital primary data for research into North African ceramics and stratigraphic analysis. The materials: card indexes, pottery drawings and research notes offer an invaluable resource for scholars. © BILNAS Archive: Dominic Barker University of Southampton

🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives The BILNAS Archive recently welcomed Dominic Barker, Archaeology Technician at the University of Southampton, to deposit a collection documenting Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins’ landmark Sabratha excavations. 1/2

📣 Less than a week to go until the next BILNAS Lecture: 'Troubling Memories and Forgotten Futures: A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean (2023)' by Rebekah Vince. 📆 Thurs 19 Feb, 5pm (online via Zoom) Click here to register: tinyurl.com/32tyu6rj All welcome.