Projects

Digitisation of archaeological excavation and rock art documentation

As part of the project ‘User-oriented restructuring of the German Digital Library (DDB)’, photographic documentation from two long-term projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - ‘Rock paintings in the High Brandberg’ (Namibia) and ‘Regional climate development and human settlement between the Nile Valley and the Central Sahara (A1)/SFB 389: ACACIA’ (Egypt) - has now been digitised and made accessible online via ‘African Archaeology Archive Cologne’ (AAArC).

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Reproduction of ten information boards which have been produced for the Heinrich Barth House in Timbuktu with the support of the German Foreign Office

With the support of the HBI, 10 information panels with introductory texts by Clara Himmelheber were produced in English, French and Germanfor the Heinrich Barth House in Timbuktu (Mali) in 2000. The English introductory texts can be found here:

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