The Rubaiyat: Titanic’s Lost Book

Published: 07 July 2021
on channel: Stunning History
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At the bottom of the North Atlantic lie the remnants of one of the world’s rarest books — a book of medieval Persian poetry called The Rubaiyat — written by the 11th-Century scholar and astronomer Omár Khayyám. It was a work of art that unfortunately went down with the #Titanic in 1912.

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