North African Collection (page 12)

Ceramic vase in the shape of an anthropomorphic head, El Aouja, Tunisia. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunisia

Quadriga, Kerkouane, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Kerkouane was a Punic city in north-eastern Tunisia. It was abandoned c250 BC during the First Punic War and was never rebuilt by the Romans

Heads of dignitaries, Kerkouane, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunisia

Money, Kerkouane, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Kerkouane was a Punic city in north-eastern Tunisia. It was abandoned c250 BC during the First Punic War and was never rebuilt by the Romans

Lions, from Kerkouane, Tunisia, 3rd century BC. Kerkouane was a Punic city in north-eastern Tunisia. It was abandoned c250 BC during the First Punic War and was never rebuilt by the Romans

Carthaginian masks, Tunisia, 4th-3rd century BC. Cathage was settled by Phoenician settlers from Tyre in 814 BC. The city became the centre of a powerful empire that rivalled Rome for control of

Street In Algiers, c1864-1892. Artist: Marc Alfred Chataud
Street In Algiers, c1864-1892

The Mosque, or Arab Festival, 1881. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Mosque, or Arab Festival, 1881. Renoir visited Algeria in 1881. From the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

History of the Zouaves in Africa, in the Crimea and in Italy, (19th century). In the summer of 1830 a number of Zouaoua tendered their services to the French colonial army

Napoleon and General Kleber on the expedition to Egypt, 1798, (c1835). Artist: Francois Georgin
Napoleon and General Kleber on the expedition to Egypt, 1798, (c1835). The French attempted to invade and expel the ruling Mamelukes in the Battle of the Pyramids

Chappes aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870). Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph station used a system of rope

Double page from the Koran, Islamic Manuscript in Maghrebi, North African, 12th century

Caravan, 1860. Artist: Felix Francois Georges Philibert Ziem
Caravan, 1860. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A Market in Cairo, c late 19th century. Artist: Franz Theodor Wurbel
A Market in Cairo, c late 19th century

Mosque of El Mecolla, Algiers, c1821-1849. Artist: Antoine Victor Joinville
Mosque of El Mecolla, Algiers, c1821-1849. A mosque viewed from a busy street

Arabs Seated in a Cairo Market, c1854-1892. Artist: Leopold Carl Muller
Arabs Seated in a Cairo Market, c1854-1892

Page from a copy of the Qur an, Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258), 9th century

Plate 8 from the Tauromaquia : A moor caught by the bull in the ring, ca. 1816

Captive Turks at Worth, 6 August 1870, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Captive Turks at Worth, 6 August 1870, (1936). Gefangene Turkos Bei Worth, 6 August 1870. Zouaves (French infantry linked to French North Africa)

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