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Egypt Through The Stereoscope

A Journey Through The Land Of The Pharaohs

by James Henry Breasted | 1908 | 103,705 words

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Examines how stereographs were used as a means of virtual travel. Focuses on James Henry Breasted's "Egypt through the Stereoscope" (1905, 1908). Provides context for resources in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). Part 3 of a 4 part course called "History through the Stereoscope."...

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Position 1 - Pompey's Pillar, The Sailors' Landmark, And Modern Alexandria, North Toward The Sea
Position 2 - Cairo, Home Of The Arabian Nights, The Greatest City Of Africa, Northwest From Saladin's Citadel To The Nile
Position 3 - Citadel And Mohammed Ali Mosque, Beyond The Bab El-wezir Cemetery, at The Feast Of Bairam, Cairo
Position 4 - Cairo, Looking Southwest Across The City To The Great Pyramids, That Furnished Stone For Many Of Its Buildings
Position 5 - “ship Of The Desert” Passing The Tombs Of By-gone Moslem Rulers, Outside The East Wall Of Cairo
Position 6 - Tomb Mosque Of Sultan Kait Bey, The Most Beautiful Of The Tombs Of Cairo
Position 7 - The Prayer Niche, Southeast Toward Mecca, And The Pulpit In The Tomb Mosque Of Kait Bey, Cairo
Position 8 - The Holy Carpet Parade With The Mahmal, Before The Departure Of The Pilgrims For Mecca, Cairo
Position 9 - The Harem Windows In The Court Of A Wealthy Cairene's House
Position 10 - Diorite Portrait Statue Of King Khafre, The Builder Of The Second Pyramid Of Gizeh, Cairo
Position 11 - The Famous Wooden Statue Called The Shekh El-beled, In The Cairo Museum
Position 12 - The Body Of Sethos I, Who Lived In The Middle Of The Fourteenth Century B. C., Museum At Cairo
Position 13 - The Magnificent Jewelry Of The Pharaohs (queen Ahhotep, Seventeenth Century B. C.), Cairo Museum
Position 14 - The Stela Of Amenophis Iii, Re-used By Merneptah, And Bearing The Earliest Mention Of Israel; Cairo
Position 15 - The Great Nile Bridge At Cairo Open For The Passage Of The Daily Fleet Of Cargo Boats
Position 16 - The Road To The Pyramids, Westward Toward Gizeh
Position 17 - The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh, A Tomb Of 5,000 Years Ago, From The Southeast
Position 18 - King Khufu's Tomb, The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh, And The Sepulchers Of His Nobles, From The Northwest
Position 19 - Looking Up The Northeast Corner Of The Great Pyramid, Where The Tourists Ascend. (raise The Instrument And Look Upward)
Position 20 - View From The Summit Of The Great Pyramid, East Over The Valley Of The Nile
Position 21 - The Second Pyramid With Its Crown Of Original Casing Masonry, Southwest From The Summit Of The Great Pyramid
Position 22 - Looking Down The Southwest Corner Of The Great Pyramid Upon The Mastabas Of Khufu's Lords
Position 23 - The Entrance To The Great Pyramid, The Sepulcher Of Khufu (in North Face), Seen From Below
Position 24 - Looking Down The Main Passage Leading To Khufu's Sepulcher Within The Great Pyramid
Position 25 - Khufu's Sarcophagus, Broken By Robbers, In The Sepulcher-chamber Of The Great Pyramid
Position 26 - Ruins Of The Granite Temple By The Sphinx, With, The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh On The Northwest
Position 27 - The Great Sphinx Of Gizeh, The Largest Royal Portrait Ever Hewn
Position 28 - Statue Of Ramses Ii, An Embellishment Of A Now Vanished Temple Of Memphis
Position 29 - The Earliest Occupation Of Men And The First Attempt At A Pyramid, Sakkara
Position 30 - Quarry Chambers Of Masara Whence Came The Blocks For The Great Pyramid
Position 31 - The Sole Survivor Of A Great City, The Obelisk Of Heliopolis
Position 32 - The Brick Store-chambers Of Pithom, The City Built By Hebrew Bondsmen—looking North
Position 33 - Dahabiyehs On The River Ready For The Journey To The Upper Nile
Position 34 - Watching A Sand Whirlwind, From The Summit Of The Hawara Pyramid
Position 35 - An Egyptian Shaduf, The Oldest Of Well-sweeps, Lifting The Nile Waters To The Thirsty Fields
Position 36 - An Egyptian Sakieh, Or Ox-driven Bucket Pump, Raising Water For Irrigation
Position 37 - “thou Shalt Not Muzzle The Ex When He Treadeth Out The Corn” — Threshing In Modern Egypt
Position 38 - The Winnowing Of The Grain After Threshing
Position 39 - Brick Making, The Task Of The Hebrews, As Seen To-day Among The Ruins Of Crocodilopolis.
Position 40 - The Tomb Of A Feudal Lord At Benihasan, Built About 1900 B. C.
Position 41 - Cliff Tombs Of The Lords Of Assiut—the King-makers Of 4,000 Years Ago
Position 42 - Assiut, The Largest City Of Upper Egypt, Seen From The Cliffs At The West
Position 43 - The Temple Of Sethos I—view South— West To Its Dismantled Front—abydos
Position 44 - Columns Of The Great Hypostyle Temple Of Sethos I At Abydos
Position 45 - Sethos I And His Son Ramses Ii Worshiping Their Ancestors In Sethos' Great Temple, Abydos
Position 46 - The Beautiful Temple Of Hathor At Denderah—view South Over The Remains Of A Vanished City
Position 47 - Across The Plain Of Thebes And Past The Memnon Statues, From The Western Cliffs Toward Luxor
Position 48 - Magnificent Desolation—the Deserted Temple At Luxor, Southwest From The Top Of The First Pylon
Position 49 - The Moslem Mosque In The Court Of Ramses Ii, At Luxor Temple, Thebes
Position 50 - The Most Beautiful Colonnade In Egypt—south Across The Court Of Amenophis Iii, Luxor Temple, Thebes
Position 51 - The Obelisk Of Ramses Ii, And The Front Of The Luxor Temple (view To The Southwest), Thebes
Position 52 - Grand Avenue Of Rams, One Of The Southern Approaches To The Temples Of Karnak, Thebes
Position 53 - The Entire Length Of The Gigantic Temple Of Amon At Karnak (view Northwest), Thebes
Position 54 - Excavating The Famous Avenue Of Rams, Southeast To The Temple Of Karnak, Thebes
Position 55 - Avenue Of Sacred Rams, Leading From The River To The Western Entrance Of The Karnak Temple (after Excavation)
Position 56 - The Great Court Of The Karnak Temple Seen (southeast) From The Top Of The First Pylon; Thebes
Position 57 - The Famous Colonnade Of The Great Hypostyle Hall In The Temple Of Karnak, Thebes
Position 58 - Looking Across The Sacred Lake (n.n.w.) To The Great Hypostyle Hall Of Karnak, Thebes
Position 59 - Middle Aisle Of The Great Hypostyle And The Obelisk Of Thutmosis I, From The Top Of The Fourth Pylon, Karnak, Thebes
Position 60 - The Tallest Obelisk In Egypt, Erected By Queen Makere (hatshepsut) In The Karnak Temple At Thebes
Position 53 - (return.) The Entire Length Of The Gigantic Temple Of Amon At Karnak, Thebes
Position 61 - Plants And Animals Brought To Egypt From The Pharaoh's Campaigns In Syria, Karnak, Thebes
Position 62 - War Reliefs Of Sethos I, On The North Wall, Outside The Hypostyle Of The Karnak Temple, Thebes
Position 63 - Records Of The Campaign Of Shishak, Who Captured Jerusalem; Relief At Karnak, Thebes
Position 64 - Colossal “memnon” Statues At Thebes—the Farther One Used To Utter A Cry At Sunrise
Position 65 - The Ramessem, Mortuary Temple Of Ramses Ii—northwest Toward The Tombs In The Cliffs, Thebes
Position 66 - From The Roof Of The Ramesseum Past The Fallen Colossus Of Ramses Ii, Southeast Over The Plain Of Thebes
Position 67 - Plain Of Thebes And The Colossi Of Memnon Seen At The South From The Roof Of The Ramesseum, Thebes
Position 68 - Looking South Over The Theban Plain And The Temples Of Medinet Habu, From The Cemetery Of Abd El-kurna
Position 69 - Painted Tomb Chamber Of Prince Sennofer, Hewn In The Rock Of The Western Cliffs, Thebes
Position 70 - Buried For Ages—colonnaded Terraces Of Queen Makere's Magnificent Temple, Der El-bahri, Thebes (looking North)
Position 71 - Queen Makere's Expedition To East Africa In The Sixteenth Century Before Christ —reliefs At Der El-bahri, Thebes
Position 72 - From The High Cliffs Above Der El-bahri, Southeast Across The Plain To Luxor And The Nile, Thebes
Position 73 - Down The Nile (northeast) Across The Western Cliffs Of Thebes
Position 74 - The Valley Of The Kings' Tombs At Thebes, Where The Great Conquerors Of Egypt Were Buried
Position 75 - Descending Gallery In The Tomb Of Sethos I, Valley Of The Kings' Tombs, Thebes
Position 65 - The Ramesseum, Mortuary Temple Of Ramses Ii—northwest Toward Tombs In The Cliffs, Thebes
Position 76 - Looking North To The Mortuary Temple Of Sethos I At Thebes
Position 68 - Looking South Over The Theban Plain And The Temples Of Medinet Habu From The Cemetery Of Abd El-kurna
Position 77 - The First Pylon Of Ramses Iii's Great Mortuary Temple At Medient Habu (view North), Thebes
Position 78 - The Hunting Of The Wild Bull Depicted On The Temple Wall Of Ramses Iii, Medinet Habu, Thebes
Position 79 - Scenes Of Battle And The Chase On The Wall Of Ramses Iii's Temple, Medinet Habu, Thebes
Position 80 - Walled City Of El Kab, Ancient Capital Of Upper Egypt, Southwest From The Door Of A Cliff-tomb
Position 81 - The Pylons And The Court Of The Temple Of Horus At Edfu (looking East To The Nile)
Position 82 - The Wonderfully Preserved Temple Of Edfu, Seen (north) From The Top Of The First Pylon
Position 83 - The Holy Of Holies And The Granite Shrine For The Divine Image In The Temple Of Edfu
Position 84 - Assuan And The Island Of Elephantine (south) From The Western Cliffs Of The Cemetery
Position 85 - Tomb Of Harkhuf, A Frontier Baron In The Days Of The Pyramid Builders, Assuan
Position 86 - The Nilometer, The Measurer Of Inundations, Island Of Elephantine, First Cataract
Position 87 - Ninety-two-foot Obelisk Still Lying In The Assuan Granite Quarry At The First Cataract
Position 88 - Remarkable Inscription Of A Seven Years' Famine, On The Island Of Sehel, First Cataract
Position 89 - The Templed Island Of Philae, The “pearl Of Egypt,” Now Doomed To Destruction (view South)
Position 90 - Looking Down (northeast) Upon The Island Of Philae And Its Temples From The Island Of Bigeh.
Position 91 - The Great Assuan Dam (northwest) From The First Pylon Of The Philae Temple
Position 92 - The Nubian Temple Of Kalabsheh, Built In The Days Of The Roman Emperor Augustus (view East)
Position 93 - Kasr Ibrim (the Fort Of Ibrim) And A Nile Vista To The North-northeast In Lower Nubia
Position 94 - The Grotto Temple Of Abu Simbel, Seen (northwest) From A Boat On The Nile
Position 95 - The Sixty-five-foot Portrait Statues Of Ramses Ii, Before The Rock-hewn Temple Of Abu Simbel
Position 96 - Looking Up The River Across The Front Of The Abu Simbel Temple, From The Sand Drift At The North
Position 97 - Interior Of The Rock-hewn Temple Of Abu Simbel, Showing The Holy Of Holies, With The Statues Of The Gods In The Rear
Position 98 - Second Cataract Of The Nile, From The Southwest, The First Obstruction To Navigation For A Thousand Miles
Position 99 - The Tomb Of The Mahdi At Omdurman —kerreri Hills At Left, Scene Of Kitchener's Victory—sudan
Position 100 - Governor's Palace And An Armored Steamer Leaving Khartûm For Fashoda And The Blue Nile
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