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A granite statue of Ramesses III (r. 1186 - 1155 BCE) standing between the gods Horus and Set. In the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Funerary stele, about 170-190 CE, Palmyra (Tadmor), yellow limestone. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium). For more updates, please consider to follow me on Twitter at @GeoffreyMarchal. (https://twitter.com/GeoffreyMarchal...

Funerary stele of Aphtonetos Circa 145-165 CE (beginning of Hadrian’s reign). Laurion (Greece) Marble. This stele evokes an aedicule, whose architrave decorated with hememions rests on pilasters. The inscription identifies the deceased...

The Blue Mosque, also known as Sultan Ahmed Mosque, was built on the orders of Sultan Ahmed (r. 1590-1617 CE) of the Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1924 CE) from 1609 to 1616 CE in Istanbul, the Ottoman Capital (1453-1924 CE). The mosque is an architectural...

The Topkapı Palace was the palace used by the Ottoman Sultans as the administrative center of the state for 400 years of the 600 years of the Ottoman Empire in Sarayburnu, Istanbul. Around 4,000 people lived in it at the time.

Al-Aqsa Mosque (ٱلْـمَـسْـجِـد الْاَقْـصَى), “The Farthest Mosque”) is the third holiest site in Islam and is located on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was transported from the Sacred Mosque in...

Reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople at its inauguration, December 27th 537 CE. To create this model, some artistic liberty was required. However, there is some documentation on which parts of the building were added or removed...

Dome of the Rock, situated in Jerusalem, is the third holiest site for Muslims. It is situated atop the Temple Mount, from which, according to Islamic tradition, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH; l. 570-632 CE) ascended to heaven.

The Prophet's mosque in Medina, Arabia was built in the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH; l. 570-632 CE). It was further aggrandized by subsequent rulers.

A Moschophore (calf carrier) figure , moulding workshop of Athens, 19th century CE, plaster. From an original found on Acropolis of Athens, 570-550 BCE, marble, on display at the Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece). Musée L (Louvain-la-neuve...