Egypt Collection (page 6)

Wooden portrait dummy of Tutankhamun
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 24th February 1923, featuring a life-size wooden portrait dummy of Tutankhamun believed to have been used for robing purposes

Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent (Disraeli foreign policy)
Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent -- Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, depicted as the Sphinx, with people below begging him to speak

A Dance at the Embassy Club in Cairo 1923
A dance at the Embassy Club in Cairo, an outpost of the club in Londons Old Bond Street, catering to high society in Egypt. Some of the revellers in this photograph include Glen Kidston, Mr. R. E

Society at the Cataract Hotel, Assuan (Aswan), Egypt
Group of well-known people at the Cataract Hotel in Aswan, near the huge dam. Pictured are Sir Oliver Duncan (in white hat), Delia de Bagno, the Marquess of Huntly, Lady Joan Villiers

Egyptian goddess Hathor with King Seti I
Figure of the Egyptian goddess Hathor with King Seti I from his tomb in Thebes, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni. She holds his hand and offers her menat necklace as protection

Egyptian alma dancing girls or belly-dancers
Egyptian alma or almeh dancing girls or belly-dancers accompanied by female musicians in veils. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Ancient Egyptian vases, tableware and furniture, including earthenware jars, incense burner, lamps, stool, throne, sofa and box

Bedouin tribesmen in Egyptian desert, WW1
Bedouin tribesmen riding camels in the Egyptian desert, 21 November 1914, in the early stages of the First World War. It was men like these who fought with Lawrence of Arabia. 1914

Hamitic nomadic woman and two children, Aswan, Egypt
Hamitic nomadic woman and two children, Assuan (Aswan), Egypt. Date: 1922

Egyptian woman in face veil with gilt cylinder, Egypt
Egyptian woman in a face veil (burko) made of black crepe with a gilt cylinder holding it away from her nose and mouth, Egypt. Date: 1922

The Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx. circa 1735

Arab peasant woman carrying water, Egypt, circa 1880. Date: circa 1880

Cherif Pacha Street, Alexandria, Egypt
circa 1920s

Coptic Christian Priest - possibly in Egypt circa 1910s

Egyptian Cave Painting

Egyptian Queen Cleopatra (69 BC-30BC). Cleopatra represented herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Date: circa 1910s

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

The Wonders of the World - some of the principal architectural gems of the world in 1913, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, The Washington Monument

Sir Anthony Eden on his way to lunch with the Queen - Eden has shortly prior to this issued his ultimatum to Israel and Egypt to withdraw their forces after Israel had invaded Egypt

Cow Goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb
Fragment of a granite statue depicting cow goddess Hathor nursing Pharaoh Horemheb. Reign of Horemheb. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1319-1292 BC. Date: 13th century BC

Two-headed camel? Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, Egypt. This image is a genuine photograph and is NOT faked Date: 2010

A man sits in a back street tea shop in Cairo, Egypt and smokes a hookah, or hubble bubble. His white clothes are spotted with red stains

Anti-British First Day Cover - Port Said Raid - Suez Crisis
Anti-British Egyptian First Day Cover (printed in Alexandria) - critical of British military operations in the 1956 Suez Crisis - November, 1956

Early Japanese Cigarette Packet - Front and Back (combined) - Mikasa cigarettes specially manuafctured for The Japanese Tobacco Monopoly by A G Cousis & Co. Cairo & Malta

Ismailia, Egypt - The Main Street. Date: 1918

Egypt - harvesting dates from a date palm tree Date: circa 1900s

Cairo, Egypt - British Father and daughter - Street snap
Cairo, Egypt - British Father and daughter - candid street snap. Note the use of classic western brand names for the local boutiques

Amenemhat III - pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt
Amenemhat III, also spelled Amenemhet III, was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from circa 1860 BCE to circa 1814 BCE

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...!

Cairo, Egypt - Arabic School House Date: circa 1904

Port Said, Egypt - Fioravanti and Chimenz Department Store. Date: circa 1903

Khedivial Mail Line S. A. E. T. S. S. El Malek Fouad
Khedivial Mail Line S.A.E. T.S.S. El Malek Fouad. Built in 1947, re-named Nefertiti in 1956 and then re-named Olbia in 1961. Date: 1940s

Egypt - Tanta - Street Scene - Chareh el Boursa Date: circa 1910

Statue of Ramesses II, Luxor, Egypt
Statue of Ramesses II ( The Great ), Statues in peristyle courtyard of Ramesses II, Luxor, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

The British Consulate Building - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1908

Camel train on a chain ferry at Kantara, Egypt
A Camel caravan on the the rope ferry at Kantara, crossing the Suez Canal (Egypt) with several passengers. The ferry was operated by means of an underwater rope

Pharaohs Workers - Ancient Egypt - by Fortunino Matania
Workers building a temple or palace for a Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. Date: Unknown, poss. 1920s

Young Berber from Egypt
A Young Berber boy from Egypt, North Africa

Daeth of The First Born - Egypt Plagues

Plague of Hailstorm - Egypt

Plague of Locusts - Egypt

Plague of Frogs - Egypt

Mena House Hotel and Pyramids, Giza, Egypt - Vintage Lantern Slide - original photograph taken by George H. Goree (1906-1980)

Egyptian Pyramids and the Mena House Hotel early 1900s
Mena House Hotel and Pyramids, Giza, Egypt - Vintage Lantern Slide - original photograph taken by George H. Goree (1906-1980)

British troops disembarking at Ismailia during the Anglo Egyptian War in 1882

Troops disembarking at Ismailia Egypt during the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882

Troops arriving at Port Said Egypt during the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882

British troops arriving at Port Said during the Anglo Egyptian War in 1882

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