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My blog is about Africa. It is also about the Middle East and life in general, reflecting over 30 years of work and study in Africa and the Middle East – Come and join me!
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Recent Posts
- Petit Boy-Boy (Kittie) Goes Big-Time on LOL Cats (Maybe…)
- DESCRIPTION BY AHMED IBN-FOZLAN OF THE INCREMATION OF A NORSE CHIEF, 10TH.C.
- Happy May Day – A Great Burundian Holiday
- . . . And Then the Rains Came: Coping in Kajaga Village
- Quiz on Identifying Ancient Egyptian Plants
- We launch our new series on the people shaping African cuisine with Chef Pierre Thiam
- Can You Identify These Plants from Ancient Egypt?
- Special Times at the Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika – Come Visit!!
- A Visit to the Holy Land by Ida Pfeiffer in 1842
- Locusts and Hyenas: The Red Sea Hills of Eastern Egypt & Sudan
Blogs I Follow
- Larry Hurtado's Blog
- Ancient Near East: Just the Facts
- Clio Ancient Art & Antiquities
- Dr Sustainable
- One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
- Writing Your Way
- Petrie's Sardines
- A Year in Provenance
- The Heritage Trust
- Leaving Fundamentalism
- Ancient Lives
- Allana Potash Blog
- NAVSA BAVS AVSA
- TED Blog
- KM on a dollar a day
- Faces&Voices
- kateantiquity
- Food Governance
- Zorro42's Blog
- petbloggermall.com
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- Invest in higher education, including the social sciences, to promote growth in Britain (& the US?) | @scoopit sco.lt/4jR5zltweet to @dianabuja 22 hours ago
- Back Matter: Commencement Day, 1818: a bit of victorian social darwinism? | @scoopit sco.lt/5GQAqntweet to @dianabuja 2 days ago
- A Templar's Guide to Dan Brown's 'Inferno' | @scoopit sco.lt/94Jf5Vtweet to @dianabuja 2 days ago
- Binghamton University - Ruler of history: Gerald Kadish retiring after 50 years | @scoopit sco.lt/4iDVg1tweet to @dianabuja 2 days ago
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Category Archives: Manuscripts
Illustrated (and other) Manuscripts before the Digital Revolution
[H/T to hrsilvers, who verified that the above is a depiction of St. Luke, together with his symbol of a winged ox, or bull. More on this interesting feature in another blog.] Digital techniques are revolutionizing access to collections in libraries and … Continue reading



























