Clothing of the West Asians in ancient times, from the left, Bedouin, nomadic hunters and ranchers with colorful apron and leather sandals, a Bedouin woman in colorful cloak, a Syrian or Canaanite from the end of the XVIII. Dynasty, perhaps a wealthy merchant, then a man of a tribe from southern Palestine, a man of a primitive, ancient tribe from southern Palestine, and a man from Retenu, Palestine, or Syria, to the north, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century