Ancient Egypt Gallery

Great temple at Karnak, site of Egyptian Thebes

Ruins of the great temple at Karnak, site of the city of Thebes in ancient Egypt.
Color lithograph reproduction of an early 20th-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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Egyptian sandstorm destroys the army of Cambyses II

Persian army of Cambyses II destroyed in a North African sandstorm after conquering the Nile valley, 522 BC.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Gustav Dore illustration

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