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The stone exhibits various kinds of markings: drawings of coats of arms, pilgrim names and ad hoc inscriptions, clearly carved by Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land during the Mamluk period. The ...

AMMAN - The Polish archaeological team recently dug at Khirbet as-Sar, a site in Bayader Wadi Sir, on the western outskirts ...

"Several Greek inscriptions have been published and pottery periods range from the Late Bronze Age through some Nabataean to Mamluk. But there are other sites like this of Roman period," said Kehrberg ...

Adam Silverstein's book offers a fascinating account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by ...

during the Mamluk period. Archaeologists also found Roman-era figurines in the form of an eagle and a theatre performer in a comic mask; bronze bells intended to ward off evil spirits; and a ring ...

In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere ...