Collections containing material about Africa (continent)

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): University of Michigan

The APIS project constitutes the efforts of papyrologists at a number of American universities to integrate in a "virtual" library the holdings from their collections (and collections that might want ...

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): Columbia University

APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains ...

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

African artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there ...

Archival Sound Recordings

The aim of the Project is to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections of recordings and supporting materials. This innovative project will: - Make 4000 hours of ...

The Cape Coast Archive: Exploring & Preserving Cape Coast, Ghana

The Cape Coast Archive represents a collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Ghanaian ...

The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists ...

Early Images of Egypt

The Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee has in its Photographic Archives a special section of 209 Nineteenth - early Twentieth Century prints related to ancient and modern Egypt. ...

Maps of Africa

Maps of Africa features antiquarian maps from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to the early 20th century. They are a ...

Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870

The Geography and Maps Division of the U.S. Library of Congress presents online images of its collection of maps of Liberia, dating from 1830 to 1870, as part of its American Memory Web resource. The ...

Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page

Provides information about the collections of papyri housed in the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library of Princeton ...

The Yale Papyrus Collection

As part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) project, the Beinecke Papyrology Database describes papyri held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and includes many ...