 Opening of the old Baghdad Museum building in 1926. The plaque is a memorial to Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist and first director of the museum, "whose memory the Arabs will ever hold in reverence and affection / [She] created this Museum in 1923"; the spiral minaret of the Abu Dayf Mosque (859-861) at Samarra, Iraq, a smaller version of the 52-metre-high minaret at the nearby Al-Mutawakkil Mosque parent page (1 - 7 November 2006, issue #818) |