On the history of costumes. Thirty-fourth sheet. XVth century. Assyrians, Persians, Medes.
Noble Median. Noble Persian. Persian (soldier).
Category: Middle East
Costumes and court dresses of Medes nobility.
Costumes and court dresses of Medes nobility. Ancient female and male clothing.
Ancient Persian warriors and king costumes.
On the history of costumes. Thirty-fourth sheet. Antiquity. Assyrians, Persians, Medes. Münchener Bilderbogen No. 635. Illustration by A. Müller. Persian warrior. Noble Persian. Persian Warrior. Source: Münchener Bilderbogen 1848 to… Read More
Ancient Ptolemaic and their Queens. Headdresses and crowns.
Different Ptolemaic and their Queens. Headdresses and crowns. Successors of Alexander the Great.
Almeh a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt.
Almeh was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt. The term became synonymous with ‘belly dancer’ in 19th-century European Orientalism.
A Nubian from Egypt smokes a pipe in 1850.
Egypt. Nubian in traditional dress from 1850 smokes a pipe. In the army and in police service, the Nubians played a major role at all times.
Resident from Hejaz, Saudi Arabia c.1850
Hejaz was the starting point of Islam in the 7th century under Muhammad, which expanded over large parts of the Middle East and North Africa
Traditional Arabian Women from Cairo. Ottoman Empire.
AN EGYPTIAN ARAB. Arabian Women from Cairo. Ottoman Empire.
An inhabitant of the coast of Syria. Historical Syrian costume.
THIS Plate, which represents the dress of an inhabitant of the coast of Syria, is also very similar to that worn by the Asiatic Janissaries.
A Bedouin Arab in the vicinity of Alexandria. Ottoman Empire.
THIS singular body of Arabs never inhabit any town, but constantly live under tents.
