@niccolomugnai
Assistant Professor, Institute of Classical Archaeology @unituebingen.bsky.social - Book Reviews Editor, Libyan Studies @bilnas.bsky.social Greco-Roman archaeology, architecture and urbanism; ancient North Africa; Mediterranean material culture
The BILNAS Archive is a real goldmine of information on Libya and the Northern African region, past and present. We hope that many researchers from all over the world will keep accessing its rich collections! @bilnas.bsky.social
Excited to announce that this report on our Siena-Tübingen excavations on the acropolis of Populonia was published in FOLD&R - Fasti Online Documents & Research and is available on open access: zenodo.org/records/1818...
Well done, everyone! @unituebingen.bsky.social
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:
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Start of the Winter Semester 2025-26 @unituebingen.bsky.social
Exciting news this summer with the release of the first @bilnas.bsky.social Bulletin, highlighting BILNAS's broad range of activities across North Africa and more! Many thanks to all current and new members - your generous support is highly valued in these challenging times for academic research
In the new When in Rome podcast with special guest @niccolomugnai.bsky.social we explore the ancient city of Lepcis Magna, birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
So exciting to be back on site for our 2025 excavation season with Progetto Acropoli di Populonia and students from the Universities of Siena, Tübingen, and Oxford. Stay tuned for updates and don't miss our Open Days on Weds 9, 16, 23 July (h. 18:00). We look forward to seeing many of you here!
🏛 Journey Through The BILNAS Archives 🏛
The image is from a field notebook pertaining to Site V at Sabratha. It also features menu entries, presumably from the excavation at Sabratha. Dated 23 July – 8 Sept 1948.
© BILNAS Archive: Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward Perkins Papers on Sabratha D5/2/6s02
There's still time to register for this exciting webinar on "Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond" @bilnas.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk on Tuesday 13 May, h. 17:00 UK time (h. 18:00 CET). All welcome to attend - I look forward to seeing many of you there!
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Summer Semester 2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social with my BA/MA module on the Archaeology and Art of the Italian Peninsula - a great start!
Really excited about this online roundtable discussing the recently published volume "Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond" @bilnas.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk. Everyone is welcome to attend on Tuesday 13 May, 5pm UK time. Registration via the link below:
www.bilnas.org/event/tripol...
Algeria, always a pleasure #archaeology #history #NorthAfrica
About time!
That great feeling of holding the final product in your hands @bilnas.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social
The latest issue of Libyan Studies 55, 2024 is finally out! Including a broad range of book reviews on North Africa's #history and #archaeology - from the Sahara to the coast, and from antiquity to the Ottoman period @bilnas.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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New issue of Libyan Studies Vol. 55 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeup.bsky.social @niccolomugnai.bsky.social @bilnas.bsky.social
Copenhagen, harbour & art
Very pleased to deliver this talk later this week at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 🇩🇰🇪🇺 #NorthAfrica #Archaeology #Architecture
Home, tonight ⚜️
A quick, but very pleasant, visit to Mainz and LEIZA @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Looking forward to delivering this talk on my new volume Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond later this week at the workshop "Urban Relations - Network for the Study of Cities in Ancient North Africa" (University of Bonn) @bilnas.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
Excited to announce that my volume "Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond" was just published by the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS), with generous financial support from @leverhulme.bsky.social
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