Manar al-Athar Digital Archive
Images of the former Roman empire
Start Date: 2013
End Date: Ongoing
Funder: OUP John Fell Fund
The Manar al-Athar digital archive, based at the University of Oxford, provides high resolution, searchable images for teaching, research, and publication. These images of archaeological sites, buildings and art, cover the areas of the former Roman empire which later came under Islamic rule, such as Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Egypt and North Africa, as well as some bordering regions, such as Georgia and Armenia. The chronological range is from Alexander the Great (i.e., from about 300 BC) through the Islamic period. It is the first website of its kind providing such material labelled jointly in both Arabic and English. Manar al-Athar is Arabic for "Guide to Archaeology" and has been chosen because Manara, in Egypt, refers to both the Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos) and to minarets. This conveys the transition, and often continuity, covered by the chronological range of the material.
Funded by the OUP John Fell fund, this project began on 06/06/2013.
Find out more at https://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/welcome.html
Principal Investigator: Ine Jacobs
Project participants: Miranda Williams; Tim Penn; Mona Habeb
