And what can you find here? * Audio collection materials including 200 shellac discs recorded in Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq between 1920 and 1940. * 500 maps, charts and plans of the Persian Gulf and beyond. 1928, Map showing (A) Air Routes, established and projected; (B) Islands in the Persian Gulf; (C) Boundaries of Kuwait and Trucial Area. And; * Arabic Scientific Manuscripts from the British Library’s Manuscripts Collections, including medicine, mathematics, astronomy and engineering. Well, what are you waiting for? Start browsing here:
Open source of 500.000 images takes you back through Middle Eastern history– Your Middle East.
Makes me remember the same illusion I had when I discovered this other collection:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=matpc
… enjoy!
Al-Must'arib (the vocational Mossarab) 