Manar al-Athar is a photo archive based at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford which aims to provide high-quality[1] open-access images of archaeological sites and buildings.

The archive's collection focuses on areas of the Roman Empire which later came under Islamic rule,[2][3] namely the Levant, North Africa, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia.

[4] The archive licenses its images under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license;[5] the images can be used for any non-commercial purpose, including in academic publications, and are jointly labelled in English and Arabic to encourage usage by academics and students around the world.

Manar al-Athar was founded in 2012 by Judith McKenzie, archaeologist and Associate Professor of Late Antique Egypt and the Holy Land at the University of Oxford.

[6] Its creation was inspired by McKenzie's experience lecturing at Birzeit University in Palestine; she discovered that her students were not able to visit most of the Palestinian monuments which she was discussing, and thus sought to Manar al-Athar to provide open-access images for such students and academics to use.