Life at Giza, Cairo, Egypt – 1952
Life at Giza near Cairo Egypt has not changed much in decades. At the time these pictures were taken in 1952, the Pyramids at Giza were already a well known tourist attractions around the world. But there is another side to the Pyramids, the day to day life of the people who live in the shadows of histo [...]
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Life at Giza, Cairo, Egypt – 1952
Life at Giza near Cairo Egypt has not changed much in decades. At the time these pictures were taken in 1952, the Pyramids at Giza were already a well known tourist attractions around the world. But there is another side to the Pyramids, the day to day life of the people who live in the shadows of histo [...]
Tourism at Giza – 1955
Tourism at Giza to see the pyramids has been a thing as long as anyone can remember. It’s not only Egypt’s most visited location, it is the only one of the remaining Ancient Wonders of the World. Egypt recognizes this and has finally turned around decades of issues between tourists and hawkers to make the location even more touris [...]
Tomb of Menkaure – 1955
I apologize for the poor quality of this photo, but I could not clean it very well due to how the slide is preserved. But, I thought this photo of the Tomb of Menkaure was still very interesting. Mostly because I have never heard of Menkaure.
Old photo of the Tomb of Menkaure from 1955
The Tomb of Menkaure is the smallest of the three pyrami [...]
Luxor Egypt – 1950s
The Luxor Las Vegas takes it’s name from Luxor Egypt, a city across the Nile River from both the Valley of Kings and the Valley of Queens. Luxor is the actually the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The Karnak Temple Complex, or just Karnak, has been used as a place of worship for millennia and contains a large number of temples, statues [...]
The Egyptian Museum – 1950s
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo holds 120,000 or more artifacts collected from locations around Egypt, but especially from the Giza complex.
This is an interesting picture of the museum building as it existed in the 1950s. The exact year is unknown but as it is part of the same “art and history” collection of slides that includes t [...]
Cairo Riots – 1952
From the set of slides labeled “history” and “art” is this one labeled “Cairo Riots.” I don’t know if this was the prelude to “Black Sunday” where 750 buildings in downtown Cairo burned down in response to the British killing of 50 Egyptian Policemen in January 1952. Or if it was a prelude [...]
Egyptian Art – 1950s
Egyptian Art – 1950s
Dating from sometime in the 1950s, I found these glass slides highlighting four different types of Egyptian Art. The collection looks like it belonged to a teacher as a few of the slides are labeled “history” or “art.”
Among those labeled “art” the first one is some hieroglyphic [...]
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