Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger (Khanjar), Persian, 19th Century CE.

Portrait of a man, standing, wearing a black felt hat, smoking a pipe. Iran, 1964.

Al-Rashid Street, Baghdad, Iraq. 1960

Kurdish girl wearing traditional head decoration and jewelry, c. 1970s.

Assyrian dog figurines with names carved on them, 650 BC.

'Who casts out evil.'
'Trapper of the enemy.'
'Don't think, bite!'
'Bite the enemy!'
'Bark loudly!'

Goddesses of the World:

Athena (Greek)
Kali (Hindu- Indian)
Ceres (Roman)
Amaterasu (Shinto- Japanese)
Saraswati (Hindu- Indian)
Venus/Aprhodite (Roman/Greek)
Corn Maiden (Native American- North American)
Kuan Yin (Buddhist- East Asia)
Diana/Artemis (Roman/Greek)
Lakshmi (Hindu-

Illustration shows a man labeled 'Persia 🇮🇷' and a man labeled 'Greece 🇬🇷' drinking a toast from a punch bowl labeled 'Renewal of Diplomatic Relations'. December 31, 1902.

📷: Puck, Ehrhart, S. D.

Bedouin on Jebel Harun near Petra, Jordan, 1961. 🇯🇴

📷: Helen Keiser

Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger (Khanjar), Persian, 19th Century CE.

Illustrations from the album Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia by Gustav-Fedor Pauli, 1862.

1. Georgian women.
2. Deputies of the Caucasian tribes at the coronation of the Emperor in Moscow in 1856.
3. A Kurd and an Armenian.
4. A Mingrel and a Gurian.

Palmyra Ruins, Syria 🧡

“Woman with pot” Egypt, circa c.1870.

Assyrian dog figurines with names carved on them, 650 BC.

'Who casts out evil.'
'Trapper of the enemy.'
'Don't think, bite!'
'Bite the enemy!'
'Bark loudly!'

Coptic Orthodox Sacred Geometry, Hanging Church; Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬

Palmyra Ruins, Syria 🧡

Luxor, Egypt, 1961.

🗺️ Map of the Earth according to Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC).

Jewish woman in the Amazigh town of Goulmima, Morocco, ca. 1935. 🇲🇦

📷: Jean Besancenot

Mushhushhu dragon, Symbol of the God Marduk, from Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar II (who reigned c.604-562 BC), the king of Babylon, started a series of ambitious building projects including the richly decorated Ishtar Gate (575 BC). A long processional avenue linked the sacred gate to

Mehrabad Airport, Iran, 1958.
📷: Mahmoud Pakzad