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African History

General

Accounts of Ancient Nubia & Ethiopia, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE
From Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus, the King of Axum, and Procopius of Caesarea.
Accounts of Ancient Mauretania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE
From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea
The Periplus [At CCNY]
Written by a Greek resident of Alexandria in Egypt during the first century BCE, this text is one of the oldest surviving accounts of the countries on Africa's east coast. A map gives some idea of the size and scope of Africa and of the author's journey.

Greek Colonies

Documents of the Founding of Cyrene, c. 630 BCE
A Greek colony on the North African coast.

Ptolemaic Egypt (323-30 BCE)

Athanaeus (fl. c. 200 CE): The Great Spectacle and Procession of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 285 BCE
List of Ptolemys [At Alberta]
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Cleopatra, from Life of Mark Anthony, [At Diotima]
The Last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt.
House of Ptolemy [Website]
Treasures of the Sunken City [Website]
A NOVA site on marine archeological explorations at Alexandria. The images and video call for a fast web connection.

Roman Africa

Julius Caesar: The African Wars [At MIT] or here [MU.edu]
Pliny the Elder (23/4-79 CE): On Africa, [At Clinch Valley College]
Egypt under the Roman Empire, excerpts from Strabo, Geography and Oxyrhynchus papyri. [At This Site]
African Armour on the Eve of the 2nd Punic War
James O'Donnell: Augustine the African [At UPenn]
The African Synods of the Church [At Catholic Encyclopedia]
Roman Sites: Africa [At Kansas]
Guide to web sites on Romans and Roman archeology in Africa.
ROMARCH: AFRICA [At U Michigan]
Guide to web sites on Romans and Roman archeology in Africa. incl. Mauretania, Numidia, Africa Proconsularis, Tripolitania & Cyrenaica.

Byzantine Africa

Procopius: The Reconquest of Africa, 534, from On the Wars IV:9
A description of Belisarius' triumph, with Gelimer, King of the

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