Ancient Egypt Gallery

Pharos, the lighthouse of ancient Alexandria

Harbor and lighthouse of ancient Alexandria, a great center of Hellenistic culture and trade.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics on an obelisk in Paris

Hieroglyphics on the ancient Egyptian obelisk from Luxor in the Place de
la Concorde, Paris, presented to King Louis-Philippe in the 1800s.
Digital photograph

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Caesar Augustus finding Cleopatra's body after she committed suicide.
Hand-colored photogravure reproduction of a painting by Von Heckel

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