chosroes

thinker. anti-intellectual. future pornstar.

[Battuta🌿 @lbnBattuta]

This style was prevalent across 1600s Persia. Interestingly, in many, the hookah is portrayed.

Leisure was the ultimate sign of status. Hookah was smoked everywhere, including at royal gatherings.

Elite families had dedicated servants (ḡalyāndār) solely to prepare water pipes.

[Red Star Playz @redstar1234245]

How mfs describe the muslim brotherhood(a useless nobody group)

[Tantric Turanist 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @cornu__copia]

She is wearing a Venetian mask called moretta. The mask was held on by her teeth, which prevented her from talking, this was considered flirtatous and increased her mysterious appeal.

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇪🇬 An elderly Egyptian man is kissing his cat

[🇵🇸 اویس @Rainypainyy]

Such a wholesome manga, it would be amazing if it got animated.

Central Asia pre-Soviets era had an amazing culture and vibe around it.

[ฅʕ •ᴥ•ʔฅ @NoMaleSelfies]

saw a homeless man with a sign that just said "i will kill myself"

[Is Mitch McConnell Dead Yet? @IsMitchDeadYet]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Liam @LegoRacers2]

Really into this 18th century Qing vase with an "occidentalist" European design that looks almost exactly like medieval illumination from a few centuries before n

[Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi]

Wow I sure do love being a Janissary in 1810.

Wow I sure love knowing I will forever be in control of the Ottoman Empire and will be wealthy and powerful and not have to fight hard. Look at how impractical my clothes are, that's how you can tell I haven't picked up a musket since Abdul Hamid I.

Wow I sure am glad we put Selim III in his place, now we can rule forever.

[Duc de Vinny (comms open) @DucDeVinny]

Sultan Abdul Mejid made not having swag illegal in the empire after the tanzimat reforms

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇲🇦 Embroidered chess set and board, Morocco, 19th century

[sanstitre (commissions closed) @sanstitre2000]

What is the best Persian state in history ?

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[artefacts @heartefact]

umayyad mosque, damascus, syria. | @ikonikvaha

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

An Armenian plate decorated with flowers. Türkiye (Ottoman Empire), 1908–1909.

[blackhumor @blackym25]

天冷了多穿点衣服

[blackhumor @blackym25]

Dionysus
1st–2nd Century，Roman periond
📷老猪的碎碎念

[artefacts @heartefact]

topkapi palace, istanbul, turkiye. | @monnarost

[Sia Guleria @SiaGuleria]

A painting depicting Goddess Bagalamukhi

ca. 1820
Guler, Kangra