Mediterrāneum

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1922 photograph depicting the interior of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

See more amazing objects from King Tut’s tomb in the exhibit, Tutankhamun: Return of the King.

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Masjid Omar, Palestine.

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Blue Qura'an page 800-1000 , North Africa or Southern Spain.

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Jerusalem, Palestine

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An Illuminated Quran. Iran. Circa 1540 – 1550 AD / 947 – 957 AH. Signed Mir Hussein Al-Sahavi Al-Tabriz.

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 295 - [Kitāb-i Advār]

This manuscript features a Persian translation of al-Urmawī’s treatise the theory of music, including division of frets, the ratio of intervals, consonance and dissonance, cycles, rhythmic and melodic modes, and the 5-string oud or lute. The treatise is followed by an anonymous commentary. It was compiled in Iran, in A.H. 815 (1412 CE). 

Click here for the facsimile, or here for additional information.

[awjila]

Day of world solidarity with the struggle of the people of Palestine - 15 may

[nobrashfestivity]

Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Bats, Baghdad, 790 AH, 1388 CE

[predecessors]

A man standing on the Sphinx, demonstrating its size. Circa 1900s.

[mediterraneum]

Al-Aqsa interior, Palestine.

[bookofkhidr]

Pascal Meunier (French documentary photographer, born in 1968), The last baths of Cairo, Egypt, American University Press, 2009

Les derniers bains du Caire de Pascal Meunier, Éditions Le Bec en L’Air, 2009

The last hammams of Cairo, The American University Press, 2009

[brassmanticore]

“The great Abu al-Sa-ud teaching law”

From the Divan of Mahmud ‘Abd al-Baqi (1526/27–1600), a Turkish judge and poet whose poetical works reflect the pleasures of courtly life in Istanbul in the sixteenth century. This is page shows the Shaikh al-Islam (chief theologian) of that time, Abu al-Sa'ud (1490–1574), engaged in discussions with other theologians, and accompanies a qasida, or laudatory poem, about him.

Produced in Baghdad, mid 16th century.

Source: Met Museum

[speedilydeepruins]

Dendera Temple Complex 3

[mediterraneum]

Fruit vendor, Egypt. 1920’s.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

NASIR AL-MULK MOSQUE - IRAN

[lesmachins]

12th Century (?) Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

[illustratus]

Bashi-bazouks before a Gateway by Paul Joanowits

Bashi-bazouks were irregulars in the Ottoman army and hailed from lands across the Ottoman empire, from Egypt to the Balkans. The two soldiers converse in an Egyptian setting, the gate topped by Mamluk carvings and flanked by East African 'Grandees' chairs', amalgams of Mamluk, Portuguese, and Indian influence.