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| The man who would be king, Ibn Saud, son of Abdur Rahman photo by Captain W.I. Shakespear in 1911 |
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| A group of Bakhtiari chiefs cross the River Karun in Iran, photo by E.B. Schocksack in 1924 |
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| A street scene in Riyadh, capital of the sultanate of Nedj, photo by G.W.R Rendel in 1937 |
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| Portrait of a young boy taken in 1947 in Saudi Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger |
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| Ishak Pasa Sarayi, palace perched above the Ararat plain in Turkey photo by Sir Peter Holmes |
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| A full view of one of the tombs known as the Treasury "a rose-red city - half as old as Time" Petra |
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| The rock Palace of Dar al-Hajar at Wadi Dha near Sana'a in Yemen, photo by Chris Bradley in 1990 |
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