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Eric Beckman

University of Al-Karaouine - Fez, Morocco - Atlas Obscura - 0 views

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Islamic culture education North Africa university

shared by Eric Beckman on 12 Sep 18 - No Cached
  • Eric Beckman on 12 Sep 18
     
    Oldest, continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world. Founded by a female scholar in North Africa
Aaron Shaw

WWII in Europe - 7 views

www.teacheroz.com/WWIIEurope.htm

europe africa wwii sources maps

shared by Aaron Shaw on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Aaron Shaw on 05 Apr 10
     
    "THE WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, & ON THE EASTERN FRONT"
David Hilton

IAM Map Index - 0 views

iam.classics.unc.edu/...map_idx.html

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shared by David Hilton on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 14 Aug 09
     
    A collection of Euro-centric, high-quality maps you can view in your browser or download. Good for Britain, France, Africa, the Mediterranean and Spain.
Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...tu-library-ancient-manuscripts

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
  • Ed Webb on 28 Jan 13
     
    Such a tragedy
David Hilton

Foreigners in Early Medieval Europe - 0 views

www2.rgzm.de/...frame.cfm

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shared by David Hilton on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 25 Jun 09
     
    This is an interesting site which has a map of archaeological sites from medieval Europe and you can browse them to look at the acculturation of the Germanic invaders/immigrants at the end of Ancient period. Will be useful for student research.
David Hilton

Antiquity Journal - 0 views

antiquity.ac.uk/...projindex.html

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shared by David Hilton on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    This provides a database of archaeological sites currently under excavation, including images of artefacts and some historical information. You search by region and then get a list of sites currently being worked on, so it can be a bit time-consuming but would be excellent for student research.
David Hilton

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - 2 views

www.libs.uga.edu/...maps.html

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shared by David Hilton on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 24 Jul 09
     
    A collection of rare maps and manuscripts on North American history from the founding of the colonies on the East Coast.
  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 09
     
    Over 800 maps going back 500 years. Quality could be dodgy though - to be honest I didn't check. I've got bookmarkitis. Quality of comments is deteriorating. Need sleep.
David Hilton

The Online Medieval & Classical Library - 1 views

omacl.org

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shared by David Hilton on 30 May 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 26 Jun 09
     
    Another one of those excellent open-source primary source websites. Not as good as the History Sourcebooks, but useful nonetheless.
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