Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and ...

Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western ...

WASHINGTON – Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long ...

WASHINGTON – Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long ...

This release is also available in Farsi, Arabic and Turkish. Medieval Islamic artisans developed a pattern-making process for designing ornate tiled surfaces that allowed them to produce sophisticated ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches, ...

Yakutiye Madrasa, Erzurum. Central muqarnas, Islamic ornamental three-dimensional architectural decoration, embellishing a church ceiling, 1310. Credit: Richard Piran McClary Coptic capital with ...

Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East. Architectural historian Diana Darke and other experts have noted that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western ...