Amazing Hand-Tinted Photos of Egypt from the late 19th century

In the former nineteenth century , Western archaeologist and tourists were fascinated by the ruins of ancient Egypt . Here are some of the incredible photos they take , which were hand - tinted in the style of the day . This is like meta - history , where we look back on an diachronic method of looking back at ancient story .

Temple of Philae, c. 1900

The Aswan Low Dam was completed in 1902 near the island of Philae , which was about always looded . In the sixties the UNESCO started a project to save the building and enrapture them to a nearby island .

Abu Simbel temples, relocated between 1964 and 1968 because of the same reasons as Philae, mentioned above.

An obelisk in Alexandria, c. 1900

Isle of Philae, c. 1900

The Karnak Temple Complex ad the gate of Ptolemy III

The Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and some surrounding ruins

Tomb of Caliphs

The temple at Kom Ombo, built during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the 2nd-1st century BC, half-buried in sand, 1880s

Hagar-el-Silsileh, probably submerged because of the Aswan Dam

A Statue of Rameses II in Memphis, Egypt in the 1880s

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The old Gezira bridge in the 1880s with big lions

A bazaar in Cairo

A narrow street in Old Cairo

Mosque of Sultan Hasan with an ablution fountain, Cairo

Bedouins Pasturing Camels

A street somewhere in Cairo

Pompey’s Pillar, a (88 ft or 26.85 m tall including its base and capital) Roman triumphal column in Alexandra, the largest outside Rome and Constantinople and one of the largest monolithic columns ever erected, built in 297 AD.

It was mount by Commander John Shortland and John White on 3 February , 1803 and display the Union Flag there and drink a toast to King George III . Three day later on they climb it again , wassail the male monarch and deplete a beef steak .