Akbar the Great was the third and most powerful Mughal Emperor of India, ruling from 1556 to 1605. Queen Elizabeth...
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Sixteenth Century (1500-1599)
Aura Sultana was a young Central Asian Slave girl of Tatar origin. She had been purchased by English explorer, Anthony...
Commissioned by Bess of Hardwick, the sixteenth-century, 'True Faith and Mahomet' embroidery reflects both the friendly trading relationship between Elizabeth...