EditorialGobius arabicus, Print, Gobius is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of and around Europe, Africa and Asia. It contains the typical gobies, being the type genus of the formerly recognised subfamily Gobiin...
EditorialArabian or Arab horse, Equus caballus var. arabicus. With Napoleon's brand on its flank and French soldiers and cannon in a North African battlefield setting. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhi...
EditorialCostus arabicus, native to South America. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) ...
EditorialRuins of Roman fortifications near el-Lejjun. The forts formed part of the Limes Arabicus, begun under Emperor Trajan, when he added the Provincia Arabica to the Roman Empire in 106 CE. The Limes Arabicus was guarded by the Legio III Cyrenaica and the ...
EditorialRuins of Umm-el-Jemal, a caravan resting place and frontier city in connection with the Limes Arabicus; late Antiquity and Byzantine. A city built of black basalt Umm-el Jemal has walls, a dozen early churches and a Nabataean temple. The cathedral.