The Historical Alphabet/Qalam
Discovering something new about the world in which our ancestors lived—and our own today—is a truly exciting experience! To share this joy with our readers, the Qalam editorial staff, together with the technology company Citix @citix.me, has created a fascinating project of important and interesting historical facts collected in an alphabet. You can now see them on Citix city smartboards and read more on our website.
Er-toqym
A Complete Set of Horse Harness
Although the word er-toqym consists of only two words (‘er’ for saddle and ‘toqym’ for saddlecloth), a complete set of harness includes many other things: a saddle skirt (leather side flaps that cover the horse’s sides from the saddle downward), bridle, breastplate, crupper, cinch straps, saddle girth, and a kamcha whip. A good quality er-toqym was made to last a very long time, and it could cost as much as a whole herd of horses because it was often decorated with inlays of expensive stones, embossing, patterned leather, and so on.
Nomad's Horse In Tsambagarav Uul National Park/Lucy Calder/Alamy