Make a trip back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries through 54 amazing vintage photos to see what everyday life of Egypt looked like.
(Photos from New York Public Library)
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| Ancient transportation, Nile, Egypt |
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| Barber shop |
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| Cairo New Hotel |
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| Down Nile from Kasr-el-Nil (Nile bridge), Egypt |
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| Feed boats (trodden straw) unloading on the Nile, Egypt |
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| Fellah women |
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| Four men and a table of food |
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| Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| Group of Sudanese in Egypt |
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| Luxor, Ramesses II |
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| Men ridding on their donkeys |
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| Merchant women |
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| Mit Rahine (statue Ramses) |
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| Mobile Arab restaurant in Egypt |
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| Moorish dining room at Shepheards Hotel, Cairo |
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| Musicians with their stringed instruments |
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| People at a mosque in Cairo |
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| People at the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza |
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| People celebrating festival |
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| In front of Temple of Amun gateway in Luxor |
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| Children on a horse wagon |
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| People under paim trees |
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| People with their camels on the Nile |
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| People with their donkey cart |
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| Philae |
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| Philae |
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| Port Said in Egypt |
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| Pottery shipping at Nile River |
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| Ramses II in Luxor Temple |
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| Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo |
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| Snake charmer |
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| Street in Cairo |
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| The Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza |
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| The Great Hypostyle Hall |
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| The Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| The Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| The Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| The Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| The irrepressible donkey boys at Cairo |
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| The Karnak Temple Complex |
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| The Saladin Citadel of Cairo |
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| The Saladin Citadel of Cairo |
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| The Saladin Citadel of Cairo |
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| The Temple of Kom Ombo |
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| Tourist man at the Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| Tourists at the Great Sphinx of Giza |
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| Tourists climbing the pyramids |
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| Turban man |
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| Water carrier |
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| Women and children preparing sugar cane |
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| Women riding on their donkeys |
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| Women with their donkey cart |
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| A dragoman asleep on his 'ship of the desert' |
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| A group of Bisharin before their tent at Wady Halfa, Egypt |
(Photos from New York Public Library)
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