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Featured Images
Home: © Basel Climate Science and Ancient History Lab, Google Earth Image.
The Lab: © Ondřej Žváček, Blue Nile, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Nile.jpg.
The Project: N. Poussin, "The Plague of Ashdod", 1630. (Louvre, Paris), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_plague_of_ashdod_1630.jpg. (This work is in the public domain). 
Events: Sahara Oasis, https://wallpapercave.com/w/wp1981664.
– Conference »Climate Change in the Breadbasket«: © J. Clements, Blue Nile Falls (Ethiopia), https://www.flickr.com/photos/giustino/38843207/.
– Program: © J. Schmalz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team (NASA GSFC), https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84582/fires-in-the-nile-river-delta.
News: © L. Howard, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) pollen (CIL: 40535), http://cellimagelibrary.org/images/40353. 
Open Positions: Bibliothek Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Basel, https://altegeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/fachbereich/bibliothek/.