Desert Collection (page 11)

Valley of the Kings. Egypt
EGYPT. VALLEY OF THE KINGS. Overview of the mountain chain that stretches behind Deir el-Bahari. In the rock walls are carved the tombs of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom. All of these are hypogea

Camel Caravan close to Valley of Tombs, Palmyra, Syria
Camel Caravan close to Palmyra, Homs Governate, Syria. Dating back to the Neolithic, Palmyra was first attested in the early second millennium BC as a caravan stop for travellers crossing the Syrian

Felicien David (Iln)
FELICIEN DAVID French musician, at the time of his visit to London in the 1840s, when his symphonic ode Le desert was performed to great acclaim. Date: 1810 - 1876

North Africa Arab Tent
Arab tent in the desert, with goats, camels and a horse. Date: 1843

S. Africans / Bardia / Wwii
Members of the Johannesburg regiment make camp after the fall of Bardia, where they had helped British and Indian forces defeat the Italians. Date: 1940

Cajun Pass Ascended
Two powerful engines are required to haul trains up to the summit of Cajun Pass, on the Santa Fe line : behind lies the Mohave Desert, ahead is welcoming California. Date: 1923

South African Ox-Cart
A South African native leads a wagon drawn by a pair of oxen along a desert road. Date: 1905

Pyramids at Mastab. Date: 1904

Egyptian Market / 1912
A market on the edge of the desert. Date: 1912

Racial / Arabs / Camel 19C
Arab man racing across the desert on his camel Date: 19th century

Ship in Suez Canal
A steamship passes through the Canal : the photo shows how the Canal is cut through the desert, involving the removal of vast quantities of sand. Date: circa 1890

Suez Construction 2
The great work commences : great numbers of fellaheen (native Egyptians) are recruited to dig a pathway through the desert sands. Date: 1862

Eugenie Caricatured
The empress Eugenie caricatured as a crane, rattling her tambourine in the desert Date: 1826 - 1920

Market at Desert Edge
A market at the edge of the desert in Egypt. Date: 1912

DESERT EXPRESS TRAIN
Libyas " Desert Express", jammed with soldiers, colonists and natives. The Gadames-Tripoli railway runs 350 miles through unbearable heat, unprotected from the sun Date: 1940s

We Gladstone / Micawber
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Liberal MP and Prime Minister depicted as Mr Micawber: the Liberal Majority as Mrs Micawber will never desert him Date: 1809 - 1898

Egypt / Pyramids (Kelly)
The Pyramids of Gizeh, seen from the desert Date: 1904

Moslems Pray in Desert
Egyptian Moslems at prayer in the desert, with their prayer mats spread out on the sand Date: 1904

USA / Arizona Desert 1923
The afterglow in the Arizona desert Date: 1923

Mojave Maze
Mystic maze of the native American Mojave people, laid out with stones on the desert floor near Needles, California Date: 1923

De Flygende Tallerkener, book cover
DE FLYGENDE TALLERKENER (literally translated, The Flying Plates), by Niels Meyn, Norwegian science fiction involving flying saucers. Date: 1954

Music cover, Valse Mystique (Mystical Waltz), by Leon du Terrail, depicting the Egyptian Sphinx. 1919

Arabs and camel resting in the sand dunes, Algeria. Date: circa 1920

Camel caravan and dog in Algeria. Date: circa 1900

Camel smala or mobile headquarters, Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1910

General view of the ruins of Palmyra, Syria
General view of the ruins of Palmyra, heritage site in Syria. Date: circa 1920

Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, USA
Mojave Desert near Barstow, San Bernardino County, California, USA. Date: circa 1920

Heads Up by J McGowan and P G Smith
Heads Up by John McGowan and Paul Gerard Smith; lyrics Lorenz Hart; music Richard Rodgers. First produced in England at the Palace Theatre, 1st May 1930

Dad Lees Dirty Rose Hotel, Oreana, Nevada, USA
Dad Lees Dirty Rose Hotel, Route 40, Oreana, Nevada, USA, showing the legendary Dad Lee Baker standing outside. Date: circa 1935

WW1 - Indian maxim section awaiting the enemy, Suez Canal
WW1 - An Indian maxim section helping to defend Egypt against the Turks. The three Indians are positioned on baron land, awaiting their enemy

Junkers Ju 52 3m -pair of wrecks in the Libyan desert

Saharan or desert horned viper, Cerastes cerastes.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Chameleon forest dragon, Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus, and desert agama, Trapelus mutabilis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Saharan costumes: Moors in the desert, and Tuaregs at oasis town.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

WW1 - Disillusioned Russian Troops deserting - May 1917. Date: 1917

A Desert Camel Caravan - Peking to Russian Turkestan
A Desert Camel Caravan travelling from Peking, China to Russian Turkestan (the territory of modern-day Tajikistand and Kazakhstan). Date: circa 1920s

Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert
Rosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)

SYRIA. Palmira. Great Colonnade. In the background, the Castle of Qalaat ibn Maan. Roman art. Early Empire

Libya. Tadrart Acacus. Archaeology
LIBYA. Tadrart Acacus. Representation of a village (12.000-8000 a.C.). Neolithic art. Cave

View of the Judaean Desert, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoises graze (Agrionemys horsfieldii). near Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Testudo - Spring - April

Sand Dunes of a desert. Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town - Turkmenistan. April

Sand Dunes of Karakum desert - meet sea at Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town. Turkmenistan. April

Kopetdag Mountains Range - a view into Karakum desert from mountains. Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Karakum Desert - sand dunes - encroaching on Caspian sea - near Krasnovodsk town. Turkmenistan

Grass Snake - in sand dunes - near Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town (Natrix natrix). Turkmenistan

Agama / Agamid Lizard - camouflaged by sand pattern on its back (Agamidae sp.). sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Flowering parasitic plants - sand dunes of Central Karakum desert - spring (Orobanchaceae sp.). Kopetdag mountains on horizon - Turkmenistan - April

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