Inscribed with Two Persian couplets instructing how to use the compass to find the qibla The qibla, or sacred direction towards the Ka'ba in Mecca, was particularly researched in Safavid Persia during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. More treatises on the determination of the qibla wer ...
Sakalawi refers to Saqlawiyah Jidraniyah, one the principals straight Egyptian Arabian horses families. It literally means “the mares kicking while running”. The ancestors of this family are the three mares: Ghazala, Om Dalal (covered in this album) and Bint Yamama. The albums include portraits ...
The photograph shows the sakiyeh, an irrigation tool for raising the waters of the Nile., Title from item, date devised., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0157, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24474320, BIB-ID: 2537274
Photograph taken with the Express Détective Nadar camera, one of the first portable photographic tools, by the French photographer Paul Nadar who, between August and November 1890, embarked on a trip across Europe and Asia to Turkestan following the ancient silk route. He acted as an early photojou ...
The photograph shows one of the long sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting Alexander the Great routing the Persians during the Battle of Issus., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled in the negative. In this print the orig ...
The photograph shows one of the long sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting Alexander and the Macedonians hunting lions., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled in the negative. In this print the original background has been ...
The photograph shows one of the short sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting Abdalonymus - the who was made king of Sidon by Alexander - hunting a panther., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and numbered (84) in the ne ...
The photograph shows one of the short sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting Alexander in a battle., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and numbered (85) in the negative. In this print the original background has been re ...
The photograph shows one of the short sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting the Persian governor reclined on the throne, transmitting orders before the departure of a coachman., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and nu ...
