Miscellaneous

Awjila today

A dromedary and its child, two hours old.

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the liberation of Damascus

Casper Reuvens in Voorburg

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone, Gate

Stemma of the main manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories

A modern Persian carpet showing Cyrus the Great, seen in Tehran.

Troy, One of Schliemann's pinnacles

A Samoyed

Faqra, Rocks

The Second Council of Nicaea (787)

Copy of De Bruijn's portrait of Joan van Hoorn

De Bruijn, Smyrna

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the victory at Maysalum

Armenian manuscript with Coptic Refutations of the Decisions of the Council of Chalcedon

De Bruijn's summary of the Shahname

Yasuj, Statue of Ariobarzanes

Hormuz

Soumela, Wall paintings: St Nicholas striking his opponent

De Bruijn's first trip

Sunset in Apollonia

Tibetan Air Burial

The Hartenstraat in Amsterdam. De Bruijn's house cannot be identified.

Roadsign "Roman Road" (Herderen)

Coloring picture with Sinterklaas

Children watching St Nicholas

Nahr al-Kalb, 12a Pedestal of a statue (of a dog?)

The Council of Ephesus (431)

De Bruijn, Constantinople

Santa Claus, by F.O.C. Darley (1862)

Zwarte Piet / Black Pete

Ras al-Qalah, Incense Burner

Manuscript of the "History of the Armenians" by Moses of Chorene

Cornelis de Bruijn, painting by Godfrey Kneller

Polybius' theory of anacyclosis

Tongeren, Modern statue of Ambiorix

The Council of Chalcedon (451)

Map of Wadi Buzra

Etching of "Zijdebalen" by Daniël Stoopendaal (1719)

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Seventeenth-century engraving, showing the story of the Bull of Zaandam

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the capture of Damascus

Bodrum, Representation of Saint Nicholas

The Hermannsdenkmal, a nineteenth-century German monument to commemorate the victory in the Teutoburg Forest

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Fort Bacone

Amsterdam, East India House

Qasr Bshir, Beduin signs

Sodoma's Wedding of Alexander

Modern statue of Corbulo in Voorburg

Taq-e Bostan, Large cave: relief added by Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

Tarsus, the "well of Saint Paul"

The Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. De Bruijn lived in the second, third or fourth house from the left.

St Nicholas on an icon in the church of St Demetrius, Thessaloniki

Multan's former Hindu temple (right)

Erasmus (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Our hosts

Frontispiece of "Reizen over Moskovië" (second edition)

De Bruijn, a lady from Isfahan (note the elegant shoes)

Copy of Titian's Death of Peter of Verona, from the studio of Loth

Mellet, Aux trois arbres

Konrad Peutinger

Constantine, Pont de Sidi M'Cid

A densimeter

Soumela, Wall paintings: the Council of Nicaea

Purple heron

Berytus nutrix legum

De Bruijn's account of the Achaemenid kings

Dusky Pademelon

Bernini's statue of Clement X

Baalbek, Temple of Bacchus, Inscription of sultan and emperor

Tepe Sialk, Modern art near the entrance of the excavation

Finding a human skull

Wadi Awis, Bees' nest

The First Council of Nicaea (325)

Dates

Peter the Great (Painting by Louis Karavack, Hermitage)

The First Council of Constantinople (381)

Susa, Archaeologists' castle

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemoration the end of World War II

Nicolaes Witsen

The Fascist statues of the two brothers

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the occupation of Beirut

De Bruijn, Dusky Pademelon

Theodor Mommsen

Beatus Rhenanus

Hecatompylos, Serail

Sari, Arian sport school

Tibetan Air Burial

Sahara: climate and art styles

Galle, Fort

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

Execution of the De Witt brethern

Number of lines of the Periochae

Modern portrait of Zarathustra, inspired by Ahuramazda's dress on a relief of Taq-e Bostan.

A modern monument indicating the eight roads beginning in Bavay. The statue represents Brunhilda.

The Second Council of Constantinople (553)

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

Gisbert Cuper

Isfahan, Chehel Sotun Palace, Colonnaded Terrace

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Poststamp Cyrus Cylinder

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating the end of the Israeli Occupation

Gheriat esh-Shergia, Italian additions

A modern house in Harran

William III (by Peter Lely)

The Third Council of Constantinople (680)

Coat of arms of Saint-Augustine (Florida)

Sophia Schliemann with Trojan jewelry

Nahr al-Kalb, Monument for the French army

Köln-Alteburg, Roadsign

Antioch on the Peutinger Map

Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements

Nahr al-Kalb, Inscription commemorating Napoleon III

Sculpture of Nigeria's Nok culture, sixth century BCE

Sinterklaas arrives in Amsterdam; note that there is no Christian cross on his mitre, but the arms of Amsterdam

Along the road to Nemrud Daği

The Dutch Republic in 1672

Simonides' epitaph has inspired many later tombstones. This one, from Tobruk, says that the Czechoslovakian soldiers fought and died according to the laws of their fatherland.

St Nicholas. Dam Square, Amsterdam.