Ancient Egyptian Gallery

Pharaoh and other ancient Egyptians

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh with court officer and fan bearer: a judge: a guard: and neighboring tribesmen.
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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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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