17th July 2008
The N. 19 of the international scientific magazine :
Sahara Journal
History and Prehistory of the Sahara
Editor: Pyramids
is now on the booksheleves and can be ordered through the Editor Website .
The volume include a paper by Alessandro Menardi Noguera and Michele Soffiantini:
The rock art sites of the upper Wadi Waddan
(Jebel Uweinat, Libya)
The paper is about the new rock art sites discovered and surveyed in the upper Wadi Waddan, a sector of the Jebel Uweinat rarely visited because it can be entered only by foot. Access to the lower part of the valley is forbidden to the foreigners for security reasons, being the valley outlet located in the Sudanese sector of the massif, where during the 2005- 2008 some robbery episodes at the expense of European tourists occurred.
1 June 2008
The Number 177 June 2008 of the prestigious Italian magazine devoted to Military History :
Storia Militare
Editor: Commander Erminio Bagnasco
is now available on the bookshelves and can be purchased from the Editor's web-site.
The 177 issue includes a paper by Alessandro Menardi Noguera, Stefano Laberio Minozzi and Michele Soffiantini:
Auenat, 1932-2007
Storia di un campo di atterraggio di fortuna in Libia
This paper, enriched by the precious unedited vintage pictures found in private archives, deals with the history of the AUENAT old Italian military airstrip, built in 1932 at the southern slopes of the Jebel Uweinat (Gebel Auenat) in Libya. This airstrip played an important strategic role during World War II. Its history is a good complement to the Saull Kelly's book The hunt for Zerzura (2002), a reference book about the political implications of the pre-war Libyan Desert explorations, which is however affected by some inaccuracies about the Italian protagonists.
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