Nile Collection

Map of Ancient Egypt. Date: 1814

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Photograph of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the English explorer, linguist and diplomat. A master of up to 30 languages, Burton made a pilgrimage to Mecca disguised as a Pathan in 1853

Pharaoh Amenhotep I. Egypt
Pharaoh Amenhotep I. Painting on stucco. New Kingdom. 20th Dynasty. 1152-1145 BC. Thebes. Grave 359. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

The Nile is Egypt, Cooks Nile Steamers
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Nile Steamers, the best way to explore Egypts ancient splendour and modern charm. Showing an ancient monument with hieroglyphics, with two men in Egyptian dress

Cooks Nile Steamer
The Egypt, one of the paddle steamers operated by Thomas Cook for excursions on the Nile

The Nile -- Notes for Passengers on Cooks Steamers
A bust of Queen Nefertiti in profile, with a sketch of the River Nile in the background, on a Thomas Cook publication, Notes for Passengers on Cooks Steamers

En Pleine Folie at the Folies Bergere
Sketches by Erte for Grands Flueves du Monde (the Great Rivers of the World) in En Pleine Folie at the Folies Bergere, Paris, 1923 (showing the Rhine, the Nile, the Ganges and the Amazon)

Dinka warriors - Bor District, South Sudan (Upper Nile)
circa 1910s

Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional scarfication
A Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional facial scarfication and wearing thick wood-block earrings - Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Cleopatra VII in Barge
CLEOPATRA VII in her barge on the Nile

Blue lotus of the Nile, Nymphaea caerulea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Temple of Ramses III. The pharaoh Ramses III with Khepresh. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

King Farouk - Ruler of Egypt - Eid Greeting Card
King Farouk (1920-1965) - Ruler of Egypt - Eid Greeting Card. Farouk reigned from 1936-1965. Date: 1930s

Aswan, Egypt - Cataract Hotel
The Cataract Hotel, Aswan, Egypt

Sudan - Shullucks of the Upper Nile

TO THE RESCUE ! Lord Charles Beresford relieves Sir Charles Wilson on the Nile island of Meruat Date: 1885

ABU SIMBEL / EGYPT
The Temples of Abu Simbel viewed from the Nile. Date: 1848

Agapanthus, lily of the Nile

Uganda Kabalega Falls
Falls on the Victoria Nile, formerly known as Murchison Falls

Bridge - Pont de Ghazirah - Cairo
Pont de Ghazirah - Bridge over the Nile at Cairo built by a French Ironworks. When Egypt became British, the two statues of the (very English) lions were added!

Western passengers on a Nile steamer
A group of western passengers on a Nile steamer, listening to a young woman play the piano

Cooks Nile Service, Ps Tewfik
An illustrated cover of a passenger list for Cooks Nile Steamer Tewfik -- two Egyptian scenes with people, a sphinx, pyramids and palm trees

Two Nuer Girls - Upper Nile, Bahr-el-Zaraf, Sudan, Africa
Two Nuer Girls - Upper Nile, Bahr-el-Zaraf, South Sudan, Africa Date: circa 1910s

Five Nuer Girls of the Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa
Five Nuer Girls of the Upper Nile, South Sudan, Africa Date: circa 1910s

Tortoise and turtle species
Greek tortoise, Testudo graeca, land tortoise, Cinyxis, European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis, matamata, Chelus fimbriata, Florida softshell turtle, Apalone ferox, Nile softshell turtle

Thomas Cook Travel Company - Poster - The Nile Is Egypt - Cooks Nile Steamers. 20th century

Sudan, Africa - Shilluk Mother and her four daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Medicinal leech species
European medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis species 1, 2. Hirudo verbana 3, Erpobdella octoculata 4, 5. Mignatta, Latrobdella medicinilais viridis, tessellata, L provincialis, L

River Nile near Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Three Shilluk Warriors of the Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa - bearing traditional weapons and displaying feather-topped topknots (one bearing the full head of what appears to be a crane) Date: circa 1910s

Egypt - River Nile - Capturing a crocodile. As with picture 10270850, there is a certain degree of scepticism in this captioners mind as to the validity of the beast which is being grabbed...!

Elephant Hunting, Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa
Local Tribesmen Elephant hunting, Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa Date: circa 1909

Egypt - a Dahabeeyah on the River Nile - Victorian period

Dahabeeyah on the River Nile, Egypt

Luxor Temple, Egypt, Victorian period

Temple Luxor Thebes, River Nile, Egypt

River Nile steamer Prince Abbas, Egypt

Rameses the Great steamer, River Nile, Egypt, Victorian period

Prince Abbas River Nile, Egypt, Victorian period

Rameses steamer, River Nile, Egypt, Victorian period

River Nile steamer Rameses, Egypt

Sailing boats carrying grain on the River Nile, Egypt, Victorian period

River Nile sailing boats loaded with grain, Egypt

First cataract on the River Nile, Egypt, Victorian period

Thomas Cook's steamship Rameses the Great at the dock near Bridge of Kasr-el-Nile, Egypt, 1898 Date: 1898

Thomas Cook Dahabeah Boat Boats Oars Water On
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The Battle of the Nile 1798
The Battle of the Nile Date: 1798

Shullucks Village of the Upper Nile, Sudan Date: circa 1910

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