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Husuni Kubwa

This is one of the early ship engravings in one of the rooms of Husuni Kubwa (Great Palace) in Kilwa Kiswani. This ship engraving was incised into the plaster of the internal wall of Husuni Kubwa certainly at the time when the palace was built during…

Stone Anchor: This stone anchor was recovered from the shoreline of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. It is an Indo-Arabian stone anchor shank measuring 1.2m long and 0.35m wide. A similar stone anchor has been in Sirafu in the Persian Gulf region, and it…