Breasted Collection (page 2)

Looking down the southwest corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Looking down the southwest corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

View from the summit of the Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
View from the summit of the Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt, 1905. Looking east across the Nile valley. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Second Pyramid, showing part of the original covering, Egypt, 1905. yramid, Egypt, c1900
The Second Pyramid, showing part of the original covering, Egypt, 1905. The second pyramid of Giza as seen from the summit of the Great Pyramid. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

King Khufus tomb, the Great Phyramid of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
King Khufus tomb, the Great Phyramid of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The road to the pyramids, Giza, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The road to the pyramids, Giza, Egypt, 1905. The road westwards, from Cairo. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The great Nile bridge, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The great Nile bridge, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The Stela of Amenophis III, Cairo Museum, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Stela of Amenophis III, Cairo Museum, Egypt, 1905. This enormous stela, hewn out of black granite, is ten feet three inches high, five feet four inches wide, and thirteen inches thick

The magnificent jewellery of Queen Ahhotep (c1560BC-1530BC), Cairo Museum, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The magnificent jewellery of Queen Ahhotep (c1560BC-1530BC), Cairo Museum, Egypt, 1905. These luxurious adornments were found with the body of Queen Ahhotep at Thebes in 1860

The mummy of Sethos I (1394BC-1279BC), Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The mummy of Sethos I (1394BC-1279BC), Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The famous wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The famous wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Statue held by the National Museum of Egypt. These portrait statues were intended to be more durable bodies, false bodies

Diorite statue of King Khafre, builder of the second Pyramid of Gizeh, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. This statue is in the National Museum of Egypt. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The harem windows in the court of a wealthy Cairenes house, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The harem-windows in the court of a wealthy Cairenes house, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. The ground floor, the carved doorway to which you see here on the right behind the tree

The Holy Carpet Parade with the Mahmal, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Holy Carpet Parade with the Mahmal, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Every year at the expense of the Sultan a fine carpet or huge fabric for festooning the Kaaba at Mecca is made in this city

The prayer-niche and pulpit in the tomb mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The prayer-niche and pulpit in the tomb mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. That niche there is called by the Moslems the mihrab, and it marks the proper direction for prayer

Tomb Mosque of Sultan Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Tomb Mosque of Sultan Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Here before us rises the lovely tomb-mosque of Kait Bey, built in 1474, by the last of the really great Mamlukes who preceded the Turkish conquest

A Ship of the Desert passing tombs of by-gone Moslem rulers, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
A Ship of the Desert passing tombs of by-gone Moslem rulers, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. We look along the northern end of a line of royal tombs which extends along the entire eastern side of the city except

Cairo, looking south west, across the city to the pyramids, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Cairo, looking south west, across the city to the pyramids, Egypt, 1905. The high-walled building on the extreme left is the mosque of Rifa iyeh

Citadel and Mohammed Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Citadel and Mohammed Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, Cairo, Egypt, 1905. The city... did not originally include the citadel before us

Cairo - home of the Arabian nights, greatest city of Africa, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Cairo - home of the Arabian nights, greatest city of Africa, Egypt, 1905. The most prominent building before us is the superb mosque of Sultan Hasan

Pompeys Pillar, the sailors landmark, and modern Alexandria, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Pompeys Pillar, the sailors landmark, and modern Alexandria, Egypt, 1905. The shaft before us was erected as a landmark for sailors by one of the Roman governors of Egypt

The tomb of the Mahdi at Omdurman, Sudan, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The tomb of the Mahdi at Omdurman, Sudan, 1905. The tomb [before us is] a low, roofless building with arched windows, surrounded by a court with an arched door on the right

The second cataract of the Nile as seen from the southwest, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The second cataract of the Nile as seen from the southwest, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

Interior of the rock-hewn temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Interior of the rock-hewn temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

Looking down on the river past the front of Abu Simbel temple, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Looking down on the river past the front of Abu Simbel temple, Egypt, 1905. [The temple] was wrought by Ramses II, the author of the most colossal works in Egypt

The ruins of Baalbek (Balabakk), Syria, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The ruins of Baalbek (Balabakk), Syria, 1900. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The grotto temple of Abu Simbel, seen from the Nile, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The grotto temple of Abu Simbel, seen from the Nile, Egypt, 1905. [The temple] was wrought by Ramses II, the author of the most colossal works in Egypt

Kasr (Qasr) Ibrim and a view down the Nile in Nubia, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Kasr (Qasr) Ibrim and a view down the Nile in Nubia, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The Nubian temple of Kalabsheh, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Nubian temple of Kalabsheh, Egypt, 1905. As Egyptian civilisation gradually spread in the country, the Pharaohs built temples here after the Egyptian style; it is incredible how a country of such

The Aswan dam as seen from the Philae temple, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Aswan dam as seen from the Philae temple, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The island of Philae, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The island of Philae, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

Remarkable inscription of a Seven Year Famine on an island in the Nile, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Remarkable inscription of a Seven Year Famine on an island in the Nile, Egypt, 1905. The rocks on these islands are covered with inscriptions

Ninety-two foot obelisk still lying in the quarry of Assuan (Aswan), Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Ninety-two foot obelisk still lying in the quarry of Assuan (Aswan), Egypt, 1905. These granite quarries where the Egyptians found stone suitable for their buildings lie on the east bank of the Nile

Tomb of Harkhuf, a frontier baron in the days of the pyramid builders, Assuan (Aswan), Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract, Egypt, 1905. On the southeast side of Elephantine Island is this interesting device for measuring the inundations

The pylon and court of the temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt, 1900. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The pylon and court of the temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt, 1900....this present building was begun by Ptolemy III in 237 BC. and completed as it in now in 57 BC. It is constructed of sandstone

Scenes of battle and the chase carved on a wall at Medinet Habu, Thebes, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Scenes of battle and the chase carved on a wall at Medinet Habu, Thebes, Egypt, 1905. At the top of the wall in hieroglyphics over two feet high

Walled city of El Kab, seen from a door of a tomb in the cliffs, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Walled city of El Kab, seen from a door of a tomb in the cliffs, Egypt, 1905. That sombre grey wall, beginning on the left and extending as far as the eye can follow on the right

View from the Ramesseum southeast over the plain of Thebes, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
View from the Ramesseum southeast over the plain of Thebes, Egypt, 1905. The Pharaohs of the New Kingdom no longer built pyramids, but hewed out vast tombs in a valley behind yonder cliff, and here

The Ramesseum, the temple of Ramses II, at Thebes, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Ramesseum, the temple of Ramses II, at Thebes, Egypt, 1905. The Pharaohs of the New Kingdom no longer built pyramids, but hewed out vast tombs in a valley behind yonder cliff, and here

Dahabiyehs on the river ready for a Nile voyage, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Dahabiyehs on the river ready for a Nile voyage, Egypt, 1905. A dahabiyeh is a long, narrow sailboat divided approximately into halves; the forward half is devoted to the crew and the ccok

Watching a sand whirlwind from the top of Hawara pyramid, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Watching a sand whirlwind from the top of Hawara pyramid, Egypt, 1905. What a picture of desolation! And yet we are standing in the midst of one of the most fertile tracts in the world

The brick store chambers of Pithom, built by Hebrew bondsmen, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The brick store chambers of Pithom, built by Hebrew bondsmen, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The Temple of Luxor, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Temple of Luxor, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

The Pyramid of Sakkarah, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Pyramid of Sakkarah, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

Quarry chambers of Masara, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Quarry chambers of Masara, Egypt, 1905. The great pyramid of Giza was built using blocks of stone taken from this quarry. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, 1905. Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted

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