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Tombstone of a Muslim girl

Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection by Oxford University

Jan 23, 20173:42Education

On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford. Object number: EA2006.21

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