EditorialEgypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza called the Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three Pyramids. Tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom.
EditorialThe sphinx, a mythical animal with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The monument is partly hewn out of a natural knoll, and partly built up. Behind it the pyramid of Pharaoh Chefren, to which the sphinx belongs. 26th BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old ...
EditorialA corner of the pyramid of Mycerinus (Menkaure) (26th BCE), the smallest of the three pyramids at Gizeh, constructed for three Pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Egypt.
EditorialDate palm, Phoenix dactylifera, showing fruit and leaves against landscape with pyramids and river. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Dubois from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medic...
EditorialGreater Egyptian jerboa, Jaculus orientalis, with pyramids in the background. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.
EditorialCoptic man and woman in robes, veil and turban in front of the pyramids, portrait of a bearded Copt in turban, and two upper-class women of Cairo in hats, veils and elaborate robes seated shoeless on a platform. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich W...