Sack of Baghdad
“The Tigris at Baghdad, February 1258. Hulagu's Mongol armies storm the Round City after a thirteen-day siege. Foreground shows the library being looted, manuscripts hurled into the river; midground reveals the caliph Al-Musta'sim led out in a sack to be trampled; smoke rises from the House of Wisdom and the river runs black with ink under a winter sky.”
