Photos Showing How People Lived Long Ago
These Beduin girls have secured a piece of an ancient column and are making it serve as a roller for crushing olives placed on a rock. An early photograph..
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Village women, seated outside their houses, grinding corn. An early photograph..
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Several varieties of basket are denoted by different Hebrew words in the Old Testament. The commonest were woven of reeds, palm leaves or, like this one, of withes for strength.. They were large and flat for easy carriage on the head. An early photograph.
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Meals are eaten seated round a common dish. Sometimes they dip a crust of bread into the food if this is of a soft or liquid nature - such as curded milk or broth.. Pieces of meat or portions of savoury rice are scooped out of the platter with the fingers. An early photograph.
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Beside the waters of Galilee. An early photograph..
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Two women in traditional dress in Jerusalem. An early photograph..
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This early photo shows animals & vehicles accommodated in the courtyard of a khan (inn) or caravanserai (literally, `caravan-house`). Inns were at regular intervals of 13 1/2 miles along the roads..
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The stairway pictured outside this house leads to the guest-room in an Arab village. Such a room is used as a kind of club where the men meet and entertain strangers or business acquaintances who may come to the village.. An early photograph.
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When upper rooms were added to the home a staircase was built outside. An early photograph..
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A primitive Judaean village home suggests the humble surroundings in which the Wise Men saw the Christ-Child. An early photograph..
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A single-roomed mud hut constitutes the home of the peasant family. In such a mud cabin young domestic animals may also be housed in bad weather.. The roof is formed of rafters and brushwood, covered with hard-beaten earth, boughs or palm branches. An early photograph.
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