Samarra harem wall painting fragments
AD 800-900 · Resource
Fragments of painted plaster from the palace quarters at Samarra, the Abbasid caliphal capital founded in AD 836. Among the rare survivals of figurative Abbasid Islamic painting.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 850
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- Viking Age (793)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793)