Egypt
- Photo For Today: Beit El-wali
Over the next few days I'll be posting some more photographs from this lovely site. The colours are absolutely marvellous. I took these photographs when was there on a Lake Nasser cruise at the end of 2006. I had forgotten just how fresh the whole...
- Daily Photo - Wildlife At Abu Simbel
There was no daily photograph yesterday due to technical hitches - I was unable to load any photographs at all. Here are some photographs taken whilst the cruise ship the Prince Abbas was moored at Abu Simbel on Lake Nasser last March 2007. Click on the...
- Daily Photo - The Northern Shaft At The Pyramid Of Khufu
More entertaining and unusual photos from Fred Sierevogel, with my thanks. Fred calls this set of photos "The Mankiller" - the north shaft of the King's Chamber in the pyramid of Khufu. The outlet is at 83 metres high. The last of the photographs...
- Blog Update - And Request For Photographs
I am off to the Current Research in Egyptology IX conference tomorrow (Wednesday 9th - better late than never, and thanks to Jacky from CRE for making it happen at all, because I forgot to register). I will be back at the weekend. If anyone has any good...
- J.p.simpson Photographs Of Egypt
http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4simpson/ Thanks very much to Jaromir Malek, Keeper of the Archive at the Griffith Institute for the following item about the J.P. Simpson photographs which show details of, amongst other things, missing and damaged scenes...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Aswan past and present
My sincere thanks to George Mutter for sending me these photographs of Aswan today and in the past. The old photographs were taken in 1906, exactly 100 years before the modern photographs. As George says, the juxtaposition is rather nice. The photos were copied from an unpublished photograph album. There will be another set tomorrow.
I particularly like the first pair, which show the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. It goes to show how much greenery can grow in 100 years! And just look at the swimming pool area in 1906.
The second one just compares Nile cruisers, the latter being a Cook's steamer. I bet that they didn't have the cruise ship traffic jams in the early 1900s that you can see today!
I particularly like the first pair, which show the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. It goes to show how much greenery can grow in 100 years! And just look at the swimming pool area in 1906.
The second one just compares Nile cruisers, the latter being a Cook's steamer. I bet that they didn't have the cruise ship traffic jams in the early 1900s that you can see today!
I am always on the look-out for photographs for the blog, so if you have any for which you own the copyright (or have the copyright holder's permission to use), and would like to share with other visitors to the blog, please do send me a set. I am particularly on the look out for slightly more unusual locations or scenes, or photographs taken in museums, but anything Egyptological would do nicely.
- Photo For Today: Beit El-wali
Over the next few days I'll be posting some more photographs from this lovely site. The colours are absolutely marvellous. I took these photographs when was there on a Lake Nasser cruise at the end of 2006. I had forgotten just how fresh the whole...
- Daily Photo - Wildlife At Abu Simbel
There was no daily photograph yesterday due to technical hitches - I was unable to load any photographs at all. Here are some photographs taken whilst the cruise ship the Prince Abbas was moored at Abu Simbel on Lake Nasser last March 2007. Click on the...
- Daily Photo - The Northern Shaft At The Pyramid Of Khufu
More entertaining and unusual photos from Fred Sierevogel, with my thanks. Fred calls this set of photos "The Mankiller" - the north shaft of the King's Chamber in the pyramid of Khufu. The outlet is at 83 metres high. The last of the photographs...
- Blog Update - And Request For Photographs
I am off to the Current Research in Egyptology IX conference tomorrow (Wednesday 9th - better late than never, and thanks to Jacky from CRE for making it happen at all, because I forgot to register). I will be back at the weekend. If anyone has any good...
- J.p.simpson Photographs Of Egypt
http://www.ashmolean.museum/gri/4simpson/ Thanks very much to Jaromir Malek, Keeper of the Archive at the Griffith Institute for the following item about the J.P. Simpson photographs which show details of, amongst other things, missing and damaged scenes...