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