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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Excavating the Sphinx, 1880s

Excavation of ancient Egyptian structures beneath the Sphinx in progress at Ghizeh, 1880s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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