📣 "Scaling up Heritage Monitoring in Libya: Fieldwork, Remote Sensing, and Training" – with Ahmed Mahmoud, Muftah Alhaddad and Ahmed Buzaian
💻 A recording of this important presentation is now available to view on the BILNAS YouTube channel.
Click on the link 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSN...
📣Join us in May for the next BILNAS lecture:
'Volcanic Ash Layers (Tephra) to Link Archaeological and Climate Records in North West Africa' by @danmclean.bsky.social
📆 Thursday 14 May at 5pm (UK time)
📍 Online via Zoom
💻 For more details and to register 👇
bilnas.org/event/volcan...
🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
This file shows drawings of stone tools drawn in biro and a report on prehistoric Ghirza, in Italian.
© BILNAS Archive: Digital Archive from Ghirza: A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period, 1953-1984.
BILNAS/D41_2_3_1_3
📣 Attention Scholars!
There are just over two weeks left to apply for a BILNAS Research Grant.
📆The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 April 2026.
ℹ️ For full details, including the online applications form, visit the BILNAS website at:
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📣 Just one week to go until our collaborative workshop dedicated to exploring Libya’s rich archaeological heritage.
'Preserving the Past, Envisioning the Future: Libya’s Heritage in Focus'
📆 Tuesday 21 April 2pm–5.30pm
📍 King’s College London
💻 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...
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📸 A photograph depicting a piece of pottery featuring a stamp from King's College Library, Newcastle-on-Tyne, is also present. (19 February 1958).
© BILNAS Archive: Digital Archive from Ghirza: A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period, 1953-1984.
BILNAS/D1_1_3_4
🏛 Journey Through the BILNAS Archives
🪦 Ghirza: The Common Cemeteries
This file of plans, drawings and negative images shows plans of cemetery types found at Ghirza. The file contains drawings of common cemeteries.
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📚 Check out 'Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond', edited by @niccolomugnai.bsky.social, a "highly appreciated and necessary academic resource” and an “important foundation for ongoing research” in North Africa.
Read the latest reviews and buy your copy now at: bilnas.org/shop/society...
📣 Less than a week to go until the next BILNAS Lecture!
📅 Join us on Thursday 16 April at 5.00pm (UK time) for what promises to be a fascinating presentation:
"Scaling up Heritage Monitoring in Libya: Fieldwork, Remote Sensing, and Training" – with Ahmed Mahmoud, Muftah Alhaddad and Ahmed Buzaian.
The file also includes a letter from R.W. Pinder-Wilson of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, pertaining to a Ghirza fragment (8 Mar 1956, the one featured here).
© BILNAS Archive: Digital Archive from Ghirza: A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period, 1953-1984 BILNAS/D1_1_1_2_1
One of Brogan's letters encloses a manuscript letter sent by E.W. Bovill regarding Caputo's Fezzan 'sanctuary' (17–21 December 1958).
🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives
This file contains several letters from Olwen Brogan to David J. Smith regarding the publication or lecture on Ghirza, including references to a selection of photographs of Ghirza taken by Charles Daniels.
I’m so pleased that i booked a ticket to attend this @bilnas.bsky.social event @britishacademy.bsky.social. Libya has always been on the periphery of my knowledge and this film made me realise how connected the histories of northern Africa are!
Many thanks to @bilnas.bsky.social for organising 🤩
📣 Join BILNAS and get access to our online journal Libyan Studies, a copy of our magazine the BILNAS Bulletin with news/information on events and research, and discounts on @universitypress.cambridge.org and BILNAS books, plus access to our Archive and membership of the @soaslibrary.bsky.social.
📣 Join us in just over two weeks' time for the next BILNAS Lecture:
"Scaling up Heritage Monitoring in Libya: Fieldwork, Remote Sensing, and Training" – with Ahmed Mahmoud, Muftah Alhaddad and Ahmed Buzaian.
📆 Thursday 16 April 2026 at 5pm (UK)
💻 Register here: tinyurl.com/y5scbx7k
All welcome!
📣 BILNAS is delighted to announce a new Grant Call for April 2026, for small (up to £3000) and large (up to £10,000) grants.
📆 The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 April 2026.
ℹ️ For full details including the applications form, visit the BILNAS website at: www.bilnas.org/research-act...
The room was packed and everyone enjoyed the Libyan-themed food and drinks reception afterwards.
Watch out for our next event on Friday 29 May at the African Centre, on the 'Amazigh Textile Tradition in Libya and Tunisia'.
More details to follow here and on our website at www.bilnas.org
Last week, on Friday 27 March, BILNAS welcomed film producer Bill Locke to speak about the History Hit film 'Bringing Libya’s Past to the Screen: Ancient Adventures: Libya', presented by Dan Snow.
Photograph of six mirror box lids.
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...to prevent tarnishing.
Even in remote frontier settlements, beauty/grooming remained essential daily rituals.
Photograph of six mirror box lids. Photo. ref. L.P.S. A 08420.
© BILNAS Archive: David J. Smith Papers on Tocra, Ghirza and other locations BILNAS/D1/11/1/2/220
🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives
Small artifacts often tell grand stories.
This b&w photograph showcases decorative mirror box lids from the Romano-Libyan site at Ghirza. Ancient mirrors were polished bronze or silver disks, stored in wooden or stone cases...
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It remains a striking example of the campaign's shifting tactical environment.
Typed summary of events of the air raid, which took place on the 19–20 March 1943.
© BILNAS Archive: Records of German Air Raid of Allied Ships at Tripoli Harbour on 19 March 1943; BILNAS/D2/1/13
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...an innovative Italian "circling torpedo."
This event highlights the vulnerability of logistics hubs and how unconventional weaponry could rapidly transform a secure harbour into a high-stakes combat zone.
🏛 Journey through the BILNAS Archives
This week we’re looking back at a pivotal moment of the North African Campaign: the surprise air raid on Tripoli Harbour, March 19–20, 1943.
Following Allied takeover the harbour faced a specialised tactical strike using the Motobomba FFF...
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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.bsky.social, London
🎟 Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bringing-l...
Prehistory. A new collection from Libyan Studies.
Check out a brand‑new curated collection on Prehistory from Libyan Studies, free to access until 20 April:
📚 https://cup.org/4sYaiSg
#LibyanStudies #prehistory @bilnas.bsky.social
🏛 'Preserving the Past, Envisioning the Future: Libya’s Heritage in Focus'
Join us for this collaborative workshop dedicated to exploring Libya’s rich archaeological heritage.
📆 Tuesday 21 April, 2pm–5.30pm
📍 King’s College London.
– with MarEA, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, @aliph.foundation
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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.
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