The world Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan

18.04.2024 / 13:48

What was included in the clothing set of Karakalpak women?

Women of all ages had in their underwear garment of complex suit – dress shirt keilek and yshtan the same cut that in men’s, but with narrow cuffs decorated by zhiyek; shapan robes, head robe-capes zhegde, a variety of headwear, shoes and were obliged to the set of silver jewelry.

17.04.2024 / 18:07

What is written at the entrance to the Shahi-Zindah complex mausoleum of 1360-1361?

A fragment from the Koran is inscribed in the very plastic thuluth-i ghubar script along the perimeter of the entrance aperture.

17.04.2024 / 16:22

A bronze mortar in the Bumiller Collection

The collection of pre-Mongol Islamic metalwork, widely known among experts as the Bumiller Collection or the University Museum of Islamic Art in Bamberg, represents the most complete groupings of practically all kind of bronze and brass items found in Khurasan and Mawarannahr/Transoxiana from the 9th to the beginning of 13th centuries.

17.04.2024 / 12:37

The Bumiller Collection

The outstanding collection of pre-Mongol Islamic metalwork, widely known among experts as the Bumiller Collection or the University Museum of Islamic Art in Bamberg, has no equal in terms of the richness and diversity of its objects.

17.04.2024 / 12:12

The meaning of red in Karakalpak clothing

The clothes of the girls, brides and young women of Karakalpak dominated red colors.

16.04.2024 / 17:09

Plate with images of birds

The outstanding collection of artistic bronze from the pre-Mongol period, widely known as the "Bumiller Collection" or the University Museum of Islamic Art in Bamberg, has no equal in richness and variety of exhibits.

16.04.2024 / 15:55

What do the inscriptions on the door leading to the complex of buildings near the mausoleum of Qusam ibn Abbas say?

At the eastern entrance leading to the complex is installed a carved door with very fine and delicate laced chasing.

16.04.2024 / 15:41

The group of buildings around the Qusam ibn ‘Abbas mausoleum

The entrance to this complex of interconnected buildings is located in the eastern wall of the porch of the middle group of buildings.

16.04.2024 / 14:05

The Budrach hoard dated to the middle of 11th century

16.04.2024 / 13:01

Germany's only museum of Islamic art at the University of Bamberg

Senator (hon.) Manfred Bumiller began to collect treasures of Islamic art in 1980.

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