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Sheep and wool in the records of the Third Dynasty of Ur: flocks, weavers and wool grades
According to records from the period of the Third Dynasty of Ur (roughly 2112–2004 BC), the country's sheep population stood at about 320,000 head. One administrative document from Girsu mentions 74,533 sheep. Another lists 816 women weavers who worked under the command of overseers. The
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Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu in one photograph
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu
The East · Archive · Books · Education · Nature
Fishes in a 17th-18th century manuscript at the University of St Andrews after the work of al-Qazwini
Illustrations from a copy of the "Book of the Wonders of the Age" of the 17th-18th century, held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Marvellous fish illustrate the work of the Arab writer Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Qazwini, who lived in the 13th century.
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The Facade of the Mshatta Palace in Jordan: A Gift from Sultan Abdul Hamid II to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1903
The facade of the Mshatta Umayyad Palace, located in Jordan, presented in 1903 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II to the German Emperor Wilhelm II as a personal gift. The palace dates from the first half of the 8th century and is believed to have been built before the fall of
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Discovery of Sinanthropus in the Zhoukoudian Cave near Peking in the 1920s
On the find of the ancient Chinese ape-man
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Playing Cards and Dice Found on 1281 Mongol Fleet Ship Wreck off Takashima Island
Off the island of Takashima in Japan, 29 playing cards and five dice have been found on a sunken ship of the Mongol fleet. The vessel apparently perished in 1281, during the Battle of Koan, when the fleet of the Chinese Yuan dynasty attempted to invade Japan. The ship is
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Two 14th-century Byzantine icons stolen in 1974 returned to Cyprus from Britain
Two priceless fourteenth-century Byzantine icons, stolen more than 50 years ago, have returned to Cyprus The icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, created under the Palaiologan dynasty, were stolen from the Metropolis of Kyrenia in 1974, after the Turkish invasion of the island. Half a century later, the
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Archaeologist James Starkey, Finder of the Lachish Letters, Was Killed in 1938 Over a Land Dispute
James Leslie Starkey is known to everyone who has had anything to do with biblical archaeology, and to almost no one outside it. In 1935 he found the "Lachish Letters", potsherds bearing the correspondence of a Judaean garrison on the eve of the Babylonian assault of 588 BC,
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Victoria and Albert Museum opens exhibition on Constantinople and Istanbul on 7 November 2026
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has at last done what museums usually avoid on administrative grounds: it has placed in a single gallery Byzantine and Ottoman objects that spent a century and a half in different departments. The exhibition Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires opens on
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British director Catherine Round films taxi drivers of Kamaishi, a city hit by the 2011 tsunami
The Briton Katharine Round has made a documentary about Kamaishi, a town on the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture that was engulfed by the tsunami in March 2011. Round set up cameras in the cabs of taxis and left them running. In the frame are four drivers, Toru Konno, Yoshiji