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Hamdan Taha

Researcher and author Hamdan Taha is a former director-general of the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in Palestine who has also directed and co-directed a series of excavations and rehabilitation projects.

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2016 Calendar: Mosaics
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Exuberant, eclectic and recently conserved, more than two dozen mosaic patterns dating from the early eighth century lie largely intact in the ruined Umayyad palace of Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho, unsurpassed masterpieces of their era.

Hamdan Taha

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2016 Calendar: Mosaics