scstatemuseum:

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.

(via penitance)

Timestamp: 1699359501

mediterraneum:

Masjid Omar, Palestine.

Timestamp: 1699031897

mediterraneum:

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

Timestamp: 1698911064

mediterraneum:

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

Timestamp: 1698860922

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.

Timestamp: 1698783264

thepeacefulterrorist:

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

(via mediterraneum)

Timestamp: 1698761810

nobrashfestivity:

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

(via a-pendulum-and-mirrored-heart)

Timestamp: 1698705264

predecessors:

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

(via penitance)

Timestamp: 1698697039

mediterraneum:

Al-Aqsa interior, Palestine.

Timestamp: 1698696898