| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Horse and cart.
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1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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The city is famous for its variety of architecture.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Three children.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Former mosque.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Motorbike outside a house.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Arches.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Grave markers.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
Site / Event : Tomb of Qayt-Be
|
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The Tomb of Qayt-Bey was built in 1474.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
Site / Event : Tomb of Qayt-Be
|
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The interior of the Tomb of Qayt-Bey.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
Site / Event : Tomb of Qayt-Be
|
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Stained glass windows in the Tomb of Qayt-Bey.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Mosque and tombs sit side by side in the district.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Street scene.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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People live in the city. Most arrived from outside Cairo.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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A collection of tombs.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Carved and decorated dome.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Small street.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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The edge of the city.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Market cart.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : City of the Dead
|
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Delapidated tomb in the City of the Dead.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The Citadel dominates the old city.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The Citadel was built by Saladin in 1171.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The walls are 1km long.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The entrance.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The Citadel has been added to by many invaders.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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The Ottoman style Mosque of Mohammed Ali (1857) overlooks Cairo from the citadel.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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Detail of the mosque.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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The Ottoman style thin minaret.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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A school party.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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Fountain.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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The interior.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
Site / Event : Mosque of Mohammed Ali
|
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The French clocktower.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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The citadel with a French clocktower beyond the mosque of Mohammed Ali.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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View from the Citadel.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Citadel
|
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View of Cairo.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Sarcophagos from the Old Kingdom (2613 to 2131 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Men Kaure with the goddess, Hathor.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Relief featuring animals.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Wooden model (c 2500 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Wooden model of a female with kohl makeup (c 2500 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Ka-Aper, a wooden figure from Saqqara.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Limestone sculpture from the Old Kingdom.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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The dwarf Seneb and his family, from Giza.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Wooden panel from Saqqara.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Painted relief from the burial chamber of Harhopte.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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The Geese of Maydum dates from 2900 BCE and is painted on plaster from the tomb of Nefermaat.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Painted limestone statues of Rahotep and Nefert.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Detail of King Rahotep.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Painted limestone model of Nefert (c2723 BCE), wife of king Rahotep.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Nubian stele from c 300 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Limestone carvings of figures.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Limestone tomb painting.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Carved relief of Senusert II (c 1870 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Hapi, the Nile god.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Stele by Tuthmosis I (c 1520 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Statue of Tuthmosis III (c 1450 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Painted burial chamber of Tuthmosis III.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Granite sphynx (Merneptah, c 1230 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Many pharoes and their wives are represented by granite statues.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Mummy found in the large Saqqara necropolis, near Cairo.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Mumified animals.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Mumiform sarcophagus.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Detailed statuettes of mummies and sarcophagi.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Papyrus with Aramaic writing found at Elephantine Island and dating from the 6th century BCE.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Statuettes of Ptah.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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A stele from the time of Snefuru (c 2600 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Wooden boat from the Dashur Pyramid (c 1800 BCE), a symbol of the journey to the afterlife.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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The only known statue of Khufu (died 2566 BCE), the builder of the Great Pyramid.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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The three storeyed Cairo Museum has one of the world's largest collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Ramesses II protected by Set and Horus.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Outer sarcophagus of Psusennes I with the sky goddess on the inside of the lid.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Pyramidon of Merenre (c 2200 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Limestone staues of Amenhotem III, Queen Tiy and their daughter (c 1400 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Steles and wall carvings with images and heiroglyphic writing are very common.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Khafre (died 2532 BCE) and his family, occupant of Egypt's second largest pyramid.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Statue of King Menkanre who died in 2503 BCE.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
|
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Sphinx of Qureen Hatshepsut (died 1482 BCE).
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The treasures of Tutankhamun were found in four gilded wood shrines.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The tomb was one of the few not to have been robbed until its discovery in 1922.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Gilded statue of Tutankhamun who ascended the throne at the age of 9.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The sceptre of Tutankhamun with his name cartouches in the centre.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Gilded statue of Tutankhamun hunting.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The main throne is made of gilded wood decorated in faience, glass, stones, gold and silver.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Throne decorated with precious stones and ivory.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Lion figure on the main throne.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The back rest on the main throne shows the king seated with the queen offering him a vase.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Statue of Tutankhamun.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The Book of the Dead (with the cartouche of Tutankhamun) on the outside of one of four gilded wood shrines.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Funerary scene on a gilded wood shrine.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Statuette of the god, Sopdu.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The death mask of Tutankhamun is the highlight of the Cairo Museum.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The reverse of Tutankhamun's death mask.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Jewelry with the evil eye.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Amulet with a winged goddess.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Statuette of the god, Neter-Ankh.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The top of the outer coffin.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Detail of the outer coffin.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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The inner coffin is made of solid gold.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Gold minature coffins containing viscera.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Part of a pectoral.
|
1986 |
| Egypt |
City / Town : Cairo
District : Cairo Museum
Site / Event : Treasures of Tutankhamun
|
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Perfume box.
|
1986 |
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