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Members of the project at the end of the 2012 season

The Monuments Men of Libya

28 Feb 2017

With Daesh militia at their heels, a handful of brave Libyan archaeologists completed the excavation of the Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica, North...

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Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

The lady is for turning (and reversing) – Thatcher archives for 1986 open to the public

23 Jan 2017

Margaret Thatcher’s isolation over Westland and the US bombing of Libya – as well as fears about the standards of her driving – are among the...

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Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya. The cave’s entrance.

Let’s go wild: how ancient communities resisted new farming practices

06 Jan 2016

Analysis of grinding stones reveals that North African communities may have moved slowly and cautiously from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to more...

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Haua Fteah cave

Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa

01 Jan 2010

Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000 years of...

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