Samuel Thrope, at The Blogs

Samuel Thrope

Nov 20, 2020, 10:24 AM

Bahrain in a First World War era map of the Persian Gulf, produced in Belgium, from the National Library of Israel collections.

An 80-year-old handwritten document on the geopolitical significance of Bahrain recently surfaced at the National Library of Israel. What is it doing here?

About Me

Samuel Thrope is the Content Manager for the Maktoub Digitization Project at the National Library of Israel. His most recent book, translated with Domenico Agostini, is The Bundahisn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation.