Ancient Egyptian 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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Alexander the Great laying out the city of Alexandria in ancient Egypt, 332 BC.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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