Inscriptions in Libyan script in the Libyan Desert and the island of Ferro : background and experiment in reading

2021 ◽  
Vol N° 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-110
Author(s):  
Alexander Militarev
Keyword(s):  
Libyan Desert

Serpents in the Soul

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Libyan Desert

This chapter discusses Dio Chrysostom’s ‘Libyan myth’, which tells of savage serpent-women who ate any man they found, until they were destroyed by Heracles; Dio explains that this myth is an allegory about destructive passions in the human soul. The chapter discusses the narrative technique with which Dio tells a story which mixes mythic and historical time; the chapter also traces the intellectual roots of the essay back to Plato and discusses what it can teach us about how myth was understood and used in antiquity. In addition, the chapter considers the relation between Dio’s myth and the scenes in the Libyan desert in Apollonius’ Argonautica and Lucan’s Civil War.

A handaxe of Libyan Desert glass

Antiquity ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 56 (217) ◽  
pp. 88-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek A. Roe ◽  
John W. Olsen ◽  
James R. Underwood ◽  
Robert F. Giegengack
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Area ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Libyan Desert Glass

The handaxe of Libyan Desert glass (PL. XIIIb & FIG. I) was found on 23 June 1979, in the Sand Sea of S.W. Egypt, at latitude 25°o8' N, longitude 25° 35·5' E, near the southern boundary of the known distribution area of the glass. Lying just north of the Gilf Kebir, this part of the Sand Sea is characterized by an extensive field of linear dunes, trending almost exactly N-S, which are up to Ioom high, tens of km long, and separated by interdune corridors or ‘streets’ 2–5 km wide.

scholarly journals Vegetation of the Libyan Desert

Nature ◽  
1874 ◽  
Vol 11 (268) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Keyword(s):  
Libyan Desert

scholarly journals Investigation of inclusions trapped inside Libyan desert glass by Raman microscopy

2010 ◽  
Vol 397 (7) ◽  
pp. 2659-2665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Swaenen ◽  
Elżbieta Anna Stefaniak ◽  
Ray Frost ◽  
Anna Worobiec ◽  
René Van Grieken
Keyword(s):  
Raman Microscopy ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Libyan Desert Glass

Rock Paintings in the Libyan Desert

Antiquity ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Kennedy Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Thomas Browne

‘Time’, wrote Sir Thomas Browne, ‘which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments’. The Nile Valley is full of major monuments—pyramids, tombs and temples; each expedition which goes into the Libyan Desert learns that it is well-filled with minor ones and remarkable among these are paintings and gravings on rocks.

Problems of the Libyan Desert (Continued)

1927 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ball
Keyword(s):  
Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert from Native Information

1913 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Harding King
Keyword(s):  
Libyan Desert

Prospects for Large-Scale Solar Thermal Electricity Generation From the Libyan Desert: Technical Feasibility

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Aldali ◽  
D. Henderson ◽  
T. Muneer
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Clearness Index ◽  
Technical Feasibility ◽  
Latitude Range ◽  
Thermal Energy Conversion ◽  
Rain Fall ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Electrical Generation

The Great Sahara desert covers the entire range of Libyan longitude 11° 44′ to 23° 58′ E and a latitude range of 24° 17′ through to 30° 31′N, thus covering an area of 1,750,000 sq km and 88% of this land is desert. The authors have measured hourly solar radiation at Kufra oasis (24° 17′N, 23° 15′E) within the Libyan Desert and found it to be a most reliable and consistent energy resource — the rain fall averages a few mm every 30 years. With no cloud cover throughout the year, the measured noon clearness-index often exceeding 0.84 and availability of large volumes of potable water from underground aquifers, large-scale electrical generation warrants a serious feasibility study. This article presents the technical feasibility for Cylindrical Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) thermal energy conversion.

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