Libyan Update: First Impressions from a Field School in Cyrene

With support from the Aliph Foundation and the U.S. Embassy to Libya, External Office (LEO), ASOR is partnering with Libyan colleagues to produce videos in Arabic showing the value of archaeology and highlighting Libya’s rich cultural heritage. This video presents aerial views of the World Heritage Site of Cyrene and the excavations sponsored by the University of Mohammed bin Ali al-Sanusi of El-Baida. In addition, the video foregrounds the training of women as archaeologists through recording their impressions of their first experiences with real archaeological fieldwork. More videos highlighting the work in Libya will be appearing on the ASOR website over the next couple of months as well as on ASORTV. We also plan an English version of this video in the next month (by February 2021).

Click here for the Arabic version of this page (الانطباع الأول عن عمل ميداني لطلاب اَثار في قورينا).

First Impressions from a Field School in Cyrene

Dr. Ahmad Emrage (University of Benghazi)

(English translation of video narrative coming soon.)