Items in Egypt

Widow Mourning

The book describes a train journey from Cairo to Kafr et Zayat station at Tantah. This illustration appears to depict a woman clad in black and wearing a shawl, citing in amidst the ruins of some anc [...]

Keywords: cities, ruins, people, graveyards, tombs

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Court of an Egyptian House at the Time of the Khalifs

120x185mm, signed by Gustav Richter.

Keywords: entrances, buildings, steps

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-01-03

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Catacombs in Alexandria

“By far the most magnificent portion [of Alexandria] was the Bruchium (granery, or height), bathed by the waters of the Great Harbour, and adjoining the oldest part of the city, namely, the original f [...]

Keywords: death, interiors, caves, catacombs, tombs, spooky

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Slave Market

“I must mention, as one of the ex-Kedive’s best actions, the abolition of the slave trade, which was flourishing in Egypt only a short time since. Very few years have gone by since I myself was one of [...]

Keywords: slavery, streets, cities, bare feet

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2006-01-03

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Colonnade of Medamot at Thebes

This temple (if such it was) seems mainly to be of interest to archaeologists because of its “Campaniform Capitals” or pillars with floral tops. To most other people it is a majestic ruin, beautiful [...]

Keywords: temples, pillars, ruins, architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Thebes; Egypt

Added: 2006-08-17

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Napoleon and the Sphinx

[Napoleon] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East, the glow [...]

Keywords: monuments, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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Temple of Dendera

It is more modern and better preserved, though less interesting, than the Memnonium. Its construction was begun by one of the Ptolemies, two hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, and was [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, people

Places shown: Abydos; Egypt

Added: 2006-01-03

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A Street in Cairo

Keywords: streets, crowds, windows, buildings

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2006-01-03

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Gate at Karnak

[Karnak] is the most imposing ruin in the world, devastated sadly, but not in a heap of débris. The ruins cover an area of nearly two miles in circumference. Was there one symmetrial structure, dedica [...]

Keywords: temples, entrances, gates

Places shown: Karnak; Egypt

Added: 2007-03-27

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The Pyramids.

The pyramids were accounted by the ancients one of the seven wonders of the world. They are alike famous for their vast size and remote antiquity. History furnishes no authentic information respecti [...]

Keywords: pyramids, ruins, temples, statuary, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2009-01-27

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