View taken from today Gongala Mountain range near Gin Ganga river. Sri Lanka near Galle.
Sri Lanka. Galle. View taken from Wackwelle Hill with black monkey.
Hunting Knife and sheath by Eusebio Zuloaga. Spanish metalworker.
Eusebio Zuloaga, gunmaker to the Spanish monarchs, keeper of the Royal Armory in Madrid, and the most famous Spanish metalworker of the mid-nineteenth century.
The Holy Carpet of The Mosque at Ardabil. Famous Iranian Persian carpet.
The Ardabil carpet is a famous Iranian Persian carpet from the 16th century and at the same time the oldest carpet in the world with a specific year of manufacture.
Indian arts and crafts. Weapons, Jewelry and Equipment. Mughal Empire.
Indian arts and crafts. Mughal Empire. Elephant Ankus. Indian dagger called Khuttar. Mongolian helmet from the 16th century.
Costumes of the Byzantine Middle Class. 400 A.D. – 1100 A.D.
Byzantine costume was the dress of the world after the fall of Rome.
The challenger of the tournament. Noblemen of the court of Charles VIII.
Medium Age. France. The challenger of the tournament. Noblemen of the court of Charles VIII. Entering the barriers to taking the oath. Noblemen of the court of Charles VIII.
England. Lower Class costumes of the Middle Ages.
Costumes 1000 to 1300 A.D. The two men in this picture might very well be, from the manner in which they are dressed, members of Robin Hood’s band.
THE GNOO. Drawn & Engravd by Samuel Daniell.
Wildebeest, also called the gnu. African scenery and animals by Samuel Daniell.
Heavy horse armor of Emperor Maximilian I. from c. 1508.
This complete “Rossgelieger” is of excellent quality. The breastplate, called “Fürbug”. The saddle is a so-called “crib saddle”.
The Trinitarian Order in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Trinitarian Order is an order in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded at the turn of the 13th century and was originally a monastic order dedicated to the spiritual struggle against Islam.
