The ceremonial helmet of Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu al-Ghuri, the last sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate, is now on display at the Diyarbakır Museum. Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the time of ...
Divers working off Israel’s Carmel coast have recovered artifacts from two shipwrecks separated by roughly a thousand years, ...
The Department of Islamic Art, Musée du Louvre, will re-open to the public on September 22, 2012. Among the items to be exhibited are four large lamps and a long-necked enameled glass bottle dating ...
Beneath the verdant pools of Gan Ha-Shelosha lies a network of medieval tunnels that once powered the thriving sugar industry of the Mamluk Empire. Hewn into soft tufa rock along Nahal 'Amal, the ...
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Persian carpets are renowned around the world for their quality and intricate designs. However, they are not the only antique carpets from the Middle East that became famous for their exceptional ...
Between 1260 and 1400, the Mamluks transformed Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs into an exclusively Islamic sanctuary. Sultan Baibars’ 1266 decree banning Christians and Jews—limiting Jews to the ...
A series of tunnels near the Amal Stream in the Beit She’an Valley were created by the Mamluk Empire some 600 years ago to power mills used to process sugar, a new study has found, shedding new light ...
AMMAN — Mamluk administration in the region grew out of the Ayyubid one, but both systems reveal a deeper cultural cohesiveness that could serve state interests. For the function(s) of smaller centres ...
AMMAN — In the past it was thought that Ayyubid-Mamluk pottery was completely different from preceding Early Islamic pottery because of changes in manufacture and decoration. Recently, scholars ...