Egypt (546 Subjects)
Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.
Pompey's Pillar, also known as Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, in Alexandria, Egypt.
The port of Alexandria.
View of Fuwwah, city close to the Delta of Nile, east of Alexandria.
The Meidum or Maidum Pyramid, south of Cairo. Due to its unusual shape it is also called as False Pyramid.
View of Minya in Egypt. In the background the El-Amrawy Mosque.
Nile fish.
The pylon of the Temple of Luxor (anc. Thebes), together with the colossal statues and the obelisk of Ramses II.
View of the great hypostele of the Temple of Amun-Re at the Precinct of Amun-Re in Karnak.
View of the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo.
The Nile river from Shellal, south of Aswan. This point is often called First Cataract, due to the high speed of the waters.
View of the Temple of Dedwen, Nubian deity, at the cape of Kalabsha (anc. Talmis), near Aswan. During the first Christian centuries, this temple served as a church, and it is still called this way.
View of an Egyptian temple at Kalabsha (anc. Talmis), near Aswan.
View of the Temple of Mandulis, Nubian deity. This temple is also called Temple of Kalabsha as of its location (at Kalabsha, near Aswan).
View of the Temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt.
View of the Temple of Ra-Horakhty in Derr, Egypt.
Front view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Abu Simbel Egypt.
Interior view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Egypt.
Front view of the Temple of Ramses II, also known as the Great Temple, in Abu Simbel, in Egypt.
Interior view of the Temple of Ramses II, also known as the Great Temple, in Abu Simbel, in Egypt.
View of the Temple of Amada, in Egypt.
Quarries in Qertassi, near Aswan. The author claims to have discovered over sixty inscriptions in Greek at the location.
View of the Temple of Ramses II, in Wadi es-Sebua, near Aswan.
View of the Hellenistic Temple of Serapis in Meharakka, location between Amada and Wadi es-Sebua.
View of the Hellenistic Temple of Thoth in Dakka, Egypt.
View of the Temple of Gerf Hussein, dedicated to the Egyptian deities Ptah, Ptah Tatenen, Hathor and Ramses. This temple has been transferred to Kalabsha.
- View of the Temple of Dendur, near Aswan. This Temple was ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus, and was dedicated to Isis and Osiris. The temple is today at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
View of the roman Kiosk of Qertassi. The kiosk initially stood at the entrance of the quarries of Qertassi, yet has been transferred to Kalabsha.
View of the Temple of Debod, dedicated to Isis of Philae, island near Aswan. The temple is today in Madrid.
View of the Temple of Isis and the Kiosk of Trajan on the island Philae, in Lake Nasser, in Aswan.