Wild flowers of Palestine. Bethlehem-star

• Wild flowers of Palestine. Bethlehem-star (Ornithogalum fimbriatum Wild)
• American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department, photographer circa 1900 - 1920 https://www.loc.gov/resource/matpc.00183/

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The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wild-flowers-of-palestine/

Old Photos & maps of Gaza ... An ancient place where people have lived longer than recorded history: It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Palestinian Sheikh from Gaza, 1870 (Photo by Félix Bonfils, University of Pennsylvania Collection)

 

Gaza, Palestine circa c1900.

Early 1900's photo of watermelon vendors in Gaza, Palestine

Gaza in 1905, from the terrace of the Latin presbytery, next to the Catholic church of Gaza, recently bombed by the IDF

Gaza in 1922 Seen from Tell Harubah, the heart of ancient Gaza and occupied consistently since the Bronze Age

 

1920, Gaza, Palestine.

 

The ancient Byzantine Church of St Porphyrios, Gaza. Founded 425CE. Photographed by the Ecole Biblique 1922.  Bombed by the IDF 2024.

 

Gaza after surrender to the British after WWI.

 

Crusader-era oculus from the al-Umari mosque, Gaza Taken 1920

 

Crusader-era doorway from Gaza Photographed 1920 The trade connections of ancient Gaza From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

Palestine... Gaza pottery merchants taking wares to market...Circa 1930's

Palestine... Unloading a great fish-net, Gaza. 1937

 

Palestine.... A camel-load of tibbin going to Gaza... Circa 1930s

 

1939, Gaza, Palestine:  Palestinian mounted police on one of the city’s streets.

 

1935, Aircraft Hanno, Imperial Airways, Gaza, Palestine 🇵🇸   The airfield was constructed in 1917 and one of the first to be built in Palestine.

 

Gaza's beach 1943

 

Gaza - The Main Road 1947

The trade connections of ancient Gaza  It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Map of Mesopotamia - The Cradle of Civilization  

The trade connections of ancient Gaza mosaics- From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

  

10 December 1948 

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights 

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Palestine refugees at Khan Yunus camp in Gaza, near the Egyptian border. Nearly 200,000 refugees, mostly women and children were placed in the Gaza area, of a total of some 750,000 in camps and assembly centres throughout Palestine UN Photo Dec 1 1948  https://www.un.org/en

 

Palestinian refugees  in Gaza   1948

 

An old man looks yearningly toward his home through the barbed wire fence of the "Rimal and Beach Camp" which is the home of 17,000 Arab refugees on the shores of the Mediterranean just outside Gaza City. 1956 photo by INS Charles Arnot

 

A Palestinian refugee woman cross-stitching traditional Palestinian embroidery, Gaza, 1967. © UNRWA Photo Archives.  https://www.unrwa.org/

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Before & After 

 

 

 

Gaza Airport destroyed by Israel in 2001

Beaches in Gaza's seaside before Oct. 7.  2023 (AFP_File)

 

Gaza-AlHusaynaMosque-Before-After-Jan2024-MOHAMMEDABED-AFP

We are adding "yellow blocks" as a weapon on genocide dot live, to categorize videos, and we are rolling out a yellow blocks app on

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to track the movement of the blocks over time.

 

Guardian Screenshot- go to link  https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/dec/17/how-israel-yellow-line-dividing-gaza-deadly-consequences-video-explainer

 

Visualizing Palestine  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/gaza-stripped/

 

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Old photos of Palestine c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Ecce Homo Arch in the Via Dolorosa Jerusalem, photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Garden of Gethsemane photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Valley of Jehoshaphat and the Mount of Olives photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

This beautiful book is printed on India paper in addition of 100 and is exquisitely illustrated with 24 photogravures from photographs by Cecil V. Shadbolt printed by the partnership of Annan & Swan, a photoengraving firm set up by James Craig Annan and Donald Swan in London in 1885. https://photogravure.com/collection/?artist=All&portfolio=Walks%20in%20Palestine&keywords=

 

Bethlehem photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

Jaffa, the Ancient Joppa  photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Mount of Temptation near Jericho photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

The Jordan photographed c 1885 by Cecil Shadbolt, published in his book "Walks in Palestine"

 

 

 

"It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices" William Dalrymple... Aphrodite,oil lamps,trade routes,churches, etc.

When Gaza was the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices... Oil lamp in the form of a lion 1stC CE, found in the waters off Gaza from the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Crusader-era doorway from Gaza Photographed 1920 The trade connections of ancient Gaza From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Same building, photographed January 2025

Crusader-era oculus from the al-Umari mosque, Gaza Taken 1920

Gaza in 1905, from the terrace of the Latin presbytery, next to the Catholic church of Gaza, recently bombed by the IDF

Gaza in 1922 Seen from Tell Harubah, the heart of ancient Gaza and occupied consistently since the Bronze Age

The Aphrodite of Gaza Hellenistic period (2ndC BCE?) from the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

 

The trade connections of ancient Gaza. It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices... From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Byzantine oil lamps of Gaza, 6thC CE From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

Scottish historian & art historian;  @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.

Multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple’s latest book was published on 5 September – a revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.  https://williamdalrymple.com/