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http://lrc-tesuto.lrc.lsa.umich.edu/HJCSimg/0209_JeruArch052.jpg

In this photograph the Dome of the Rock is visible in the upper left and the dome of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is visible in the upper right. Below them, Robinson's Arch is visible, springing out of the Western Wall (to the left). The tower rising up at the…

http://lrc-tesuto.lrc.lsa.umich.edu/HJCSimg/0254_Mamluks.JPG

This page, from a book called Nihayat al-Sul, a Mamluk manual on horsemanship that was published in Cairo in the mid- to late-14th century, offers a visual depiction of Mamluk cavalrymen. Note their spears and light armor.

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