ملخص الدراسة: Gravestones have a major significance in history and archaeology for being authentic historical documents that reveal many aspects of ancient societies pertaining to their population, races, religious culture, language, professions, trades, and many other aspects. Given that the heritage of Gaza has been subjected to destruction due to political conflict and negligence, the […]

ملخص الدراسة: The proposal of new names or designations of the culture’s elements is common in the science. The research deals with this idea and it contradicts a view about a new name of the Sinaitic Writing. The Sinaitic Writing is a very important element not only of the Egyptian civilization but also of the […]

ملخص الدراسة:   The Sharifian Saadi Dynasty ruled Morocco for more than one century and a half, during which the Saadians achieved numerous political and military victories, the foremost of which are defeating the Portuguese army in the famous Battle of Oued El Makhazeen in AH 986/1578 CE and taking control over western Sudan. Moreover, […]

ملخص الدراسة: Constantine is located east of Algeria. It is the most important Algerian city in terms of the number of inscriptions discovered. It is the second city after Carthage concerning the Punic inscriptions; and became after the fall of Carthage, the best example to study history of ancient Maghreb, especially during second and third […]

ملخص الدراسة: The Ṣaḥābah or Companions of Prophet Muhammad do enjoy a great legacy and a solid experience in Writing; for Islam has urged people to read and write, and hence the Companions were keen to teach and study Writing. The Prophet handpicked certain scribes from his Companions to record Divine Revelation, and others to […]

ملخص الدراسة: Endowments (waqf) played a significant role in the prevalence of religious and charitable buildings in Egypt and Syria during Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Endowment inscriptions were commonly used in Syria—almost on façades and entrances—to protect the endowed buildings from the robbing, damaging, or falsifying of their title deeds.   This paper investigates one […]

ملخص الدراسة: The present study sheds light on a rare type of Rasulid dinars, namely the coins of Sultan El Mu’ayyad Da’ud, which were the first to represent the type and to imitate the Hafsid dinars that are distinguished by their square-in-circle design. The present study tackles various issues in an attempt to explain this […]

ملخص الدراسة: The research aims to publish a palette inscribed with Mosnad Humairi script for the first time, it is said that this painting is the rest of the remaining Ghumadan famous Palace, which is displayed at Zaki Pasha's Mosque in Giza Governorate. The research is divided into five parts; the first part is the Introduction, […]

ملخص الدراسة: A new archaeological survey in Wadi Abu Subeira and el-Aqaba el-Saghira by a team from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities has recently identified many new rock art sites. So far, nine sites with Late Palaeolithic rock art have been identified in Wādi Abū Subeira and only one in Aqba.  The Late Palaeolithic […]

ملخص الدراسة: This paper deal with the study of ten foundation inscription on the ottoman monuments in Tripoli, the inscriptions found in eight monuments such as: Awayseya mosque (940/ 1534), Mahmoudya madrasa (995/ 1587), Tawbah Mosque (1021/ 1612) and  Mahmoud al- sangak Minaret (1295/ 1878).           The foundation inscriptions contains five basic elements, the basmala […]