This is interesting
Here is a photo from the Danish National Museum of a Yemeni Jambiya which Carsten Niebuhr brought back from Yemen in the late 1700's. He was the only survivor of a Danish expedition to the Middle East. This would be the oldest confirmed date for a Yemeni Jambiya that I know of though there is reference to them in Ibn Battuta in the 1300's. The bottom image is an illustration from Neiburh's book and is thought by some to be the author himself wearing the Jambiya.
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