Luxor, Egypt. 1915. Rough unfinished wall at Temple of Medinet Habn showing how Ramses and other ...

Accession Number G01718
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Luxor, Egypt. 1915. Rough unfinished wall at Temple of Medinet Habn showing how Ramses and other Pharaohs stole stones from earlier temples, built them in first and smoothed them afterwards. This wall had not been smoothed. The older carvings can be seen on the stones.

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