British Institute in Eastern Africa Image Archive
British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5284/1038987. How to cite using this DOI
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- ADS Collection: 1965
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1038987
- How to cite using this DOI
Introduction
The British Institute in Eastern Africa promotes research into the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of eastern Africa, broadly defined. It is based in Nairobi where it maintains a library and research facilities. The Institute undertakes and supports research in countries throughout the region, from Zimbabwe to the Sudan. It is supported by the British Academy, and is governed by a Council, elected by its members, which is based in London.
This parent collection brings together the digitised collections of archives held at the BIEA's Nairobi base which can be accessed form the Collections List in the menu on the left. These relate to archaeological excavations and reconnaissance at key locations in the region, including some of the BIEA's flagship projects at sites like Aksum, Ethiopia, and Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania.
Together the images, and accompanying documents, form a record of decades of research at important sites in the eastern African region. This includes some parts of eastern Africa - notably the Somali coast - which are now effectively closed to research, and where the sites and monuments from these pictures are almost certainly now destroyed. This archive seeks to preserve this information for future researchers, and to make it available beyond Nairobi.
