LASER SCANNING SHIHRAZAD'S BATHS: 1001 TALES OF ZANZIBAR NIGHTS.
This article presents the first archaeological survey of the ornate Kidichi baths on Zanzibar. The baths were built either for or by Shihrazad, a wife of Zanzibar's nineteenth-century ruler Said bin Sultan (1806–56). Laser scanning the ornate plaster stucco clarified two inscriptions, the precise me...
| Publicado en: | Antiquaries Journal Vol. 100; pp. 340 - 374 |
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