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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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