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Aden in 1861
Drawing of a manāra (lighthouse) in Aden. From the Facebook page of Mohammed Jarhoom.


al-Bakīriyya Mosque over the years
Several photographs of the Bakīriyya Mosque in Ṣan‘ā' have been uploaded on the Facebook Site of Yūsuf Maḥyūb al-Ṭiyār. The Bakīriyya...


Sanaa in 1896
One of the oldest photographs of Ṣan‘ā' from 1896, facing Bāb al-Yaman. From the Facebook Page of Yūsuf al-Tiyar.


Zabid Towers
From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.


Leaning Tower of Amran
You do not have to travel to Pisa to see a leaning tower...


Picturing Sanaa from the Ottoman Era
From the Facebook Page of Yusuf al-Tiyar.


The Mocha mosque in the 70s
From the Facebook Page of Hussain Alamree


Sanaa: more than a century apart
From the Facebook Site of Yusuf al-Tiyar.


Socotra boat a century ago
From the Facebook Page of Mohammed Jarhoom.


What Zubayri Street looked like in 1927
From the Facebook site of عصام سنحوب


Fields on Jabal Sabr
مسجد اهل الكهف وقرية المعقاب From the Facebook site of Fahad al-Anbari.


Hadramawt from above
From the Facebook Page of Hussain Alamree.


Yemeni art of Hatem Alakel
From the Facebook page of Mohammed Jarhoom.


Philby in the Ḥaḍramawt
The British traveler H. St. J. Philby is best known for his writings on Saudi Arabia, but he also visited the Hadramawt in the late...


Cats in Sanaa
It seems that Sanaa has been taken over by cats... From the Facebook Page of Khalid al-Ansi


Bani Shadad Castle
More of the fabulous architecture of Yemen. Do ignore the Google Translate. The Himyaris always end up as donkeys... From the Facebook...


Yemen at the Louvre
The entire collection of the Louvre in Paris is now online. For the objects on Yemen, click here.
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