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Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125)
The first major presentation of Liao artifacts outside of China ... In geographic extent, it rivaled the other great powers of Asia such as the Khmer Empire of Cambodia and the Abbasid Empire of Iraq ...
Middle East Eye9y
The Chinese through Abbasid eyes
Van Berkel, a specialist in the Abbasids’ empire, recalls that the City of Peace, as it was called, had probably around half a million inhabitants. “But that’s still gigantic and beyond ...
National Geographic news4y
Made in China
The other economic engine was Baghdad, capital of the Abbasid dynasty from 762 onward ... a team of divers retrieved the ancient artifacts. The treasure—much of it, anyway—turned out to ...
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Archaeologists Discover 1200-Yr-Old Rare Gold Coins Inside a Broken Jar, Believe It Was Potter’s Personal Stash
“These are gold dinars issued by the Aghlabid dynasty that ruled in North Africa, in the region of modern Tunisia, on behalf of the Abbasid Caliphate ... Yavne where the artifacts were spotted ...
BBC1y
Where was the early Islamic Civilisation?
Courtyard of Ibn Tulun mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It was built in AD876 during the Abbasid dynasty. Muhammad later moved to the city of Medina and built a mosque (Islamic place of worship).