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Interior view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Hathor, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Interiors, Nefertari, Nubia, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (Abu Simbel )

Front view of the Temple of Hathor and Nefertari, also known as the Small Temple, in Abu Simbel Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Nefertari, Nubia, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Sculptures, Temple of Hathor and Nefertari (Abu Simbel )

View of the Temple of Ra-Horakhty in Derr, Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, El-Derr, Hieroglyphs, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ra-Horakhty, Temple of Ra-Horakhty (Derr)

View of the Nile river at Wadi Halfa in Sudan. This point is called Second Cataract, due to high speed of the waters.

Tags: Natural environment, Nubia, Rivers, Sudan, Wadi Halfa, Waterfalls

View of the Temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt.

Tags: Abu Simbel, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian temples, Nasser, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Rivers

View of the Temple of Mandulis, Nubian deity. This temple is also called Temple of Kalabsha as of its location (at Kalabsha, near Aswan).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Ethnic groups, Kalabsha / anc. Talmis, Nubia, Nubians, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Mandulis – Temple of Kalabsha

View of the Temple of Dedwen, Nubian deity, at the cape of Kalabsha (anc. Talmis), near Aswan. During the first Christian centuries, this temple served as a church, and it is still called this way.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Human types, Kalabsha / anc. Talmis, Nubian architecture, Ruins, Temple of Dedwen (Kalabsha), Views

The Nile river from Shellal, south of Aswan. This point is often called First Cataract, due to the high speed of the waters.

Tags: Aswan / anc. Syene, Birds, Egypt, Natural environment, Nile river, Rivers, Shellal, Storks, Waterfalls

View of the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Kom Ombo / anc. Omboi, Natural environment, Nile river, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Rivers, Ruins, Temple of Kom Ombo, Views

The pylon of the Temple of Luxor (anc. Thebes), together with the colossal statues and the obelisk of Ramses II.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Luxor Obelisk, Pharaohs, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ramesses II, Sculptures, Temple of Luxor, Thebes / Luxor

Nile fish.

Tags: Egypt, Fish, Natural environment, Nile river, Rivers

View of Minya in Egypt. In the background the El-Amrawy Mosque.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, El-Amrawy Mosque / El-Amrawy Camii, Fatimid architecture, Fatimid monuments, Houses, Human types, Minya, Mosques, Nile river, Rivers, Smoking, Views

The Meidum or Maidum Pyramid, south of Cairo. Due to its unusual shape it is also called as False Pyramid.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Cairo, Egypt, Houses, Human types, Meidum Pyramid, Natural environment, Nile river, Pyramids, Rivers, Views

View of Fuwwah, city close to the Delta of Nile, east of Alexandria.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Egypt, Fuwwah, Houses, Kafr El-Shaikh, Mosques, Nile river, Rivers, Views

The port of Alexandria.

Tags: Alexandria, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Egypt, Houses, Lighthouses, Ports, Views

Pompey's Pillar, also known as Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Tags: Alexandria, Animals, Arabs, Art and antiquities, Carpets, Children, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Donkeys, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Ottomans, Pompey's Pillar / Triumphal pillar of Diocletian, Social sphere and everyday life

America, the ship in which the author sailed to Alexandria, Egypt.

Tags: Travel

Fig. 1. Rock-cut mausoleum in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lanscape at the Gulf of Saint Paul, in Lindos (Rhodes).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bay of Agios Pavlos (Lindos), Boats and ships, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Islands, Lindos, Lycia, Mausoleums, Rhodes, Views

Carved tombs in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lycia, Mausoleums, Turkey, Views

Lycian sarcophag at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

Lycian sarcophagi and mausoleums at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

Fig. 1. View of the Hellenistic, theater of Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lycian tombs and sarcophagi at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Makri /Fethiye, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Hellenistic architecture, Hellenistic monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Theatres, Turkey, Views

View of Marmaris in Asia Minor. In the background the Castle of the city, constructed by the Knights Hospitaller.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Caria, Castle of Marmaris, Houses, Knights Hospitaller, Marmaris / anc. Physkos / gr. Marmaritsi, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Turkey, Views

View of the medieval city of Rhodes. On the right the Naillac Tower, constructed during the era of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Philibert de Naillac, hence its name, and demolished in the mid-19th century.

Fig. 1. Part of stele from Bodrum (anc. Halicarnassus). This stele was most probably at the site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Fig. 2. Metopes from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. These Metopes, on which scenes from the Amazonomachia are depicted, are some of the very few elements of the Mausoleum preserved today, because the locals used them to cover several parts of the sewer system. Inscription from the Castle of Halicarnassus, also know as Castle of Saint Paul.

Tags: Amazonomachy, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bodrum / Halicarnassus, Caria, Greek mythology, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Metopes, Reliefs, Steles, Turkey

The ruins of the Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos) at the Asclepion of Kos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asclepion (Kos), Dodecanese, Greece, Islands, Kos, Natural environment, Ruins, Thermae of Gaius Xenophon (Kos)

The central square of the city of Kos with the Plane tree of Hippocrates.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Birds, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Greece, Houses, Islands, Kos, Ottoman architecture, Plane tree of Hippocrates, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

The remains of the Temple of Apollo in Didyma, ancient city of Asia Minor.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Didim / anc. Didyma, Greeks, Human types, Ionia, Ruins, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey, Views, Windmills, Yenihisar

The ruins of the Temple of Hera on Samos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Greece, Heraion of Samos, Human types, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Natural environment, Ruins, Rural houses, Samos, Views

View of the remains of the ancient theater of Erythrae, ancient city in Asia Minor. In the background the island of Chios.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Çeşme / Krini, Chios, Erythrae (Asia Minor), Human types, Ildırı, Ionia, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Peninsula of Erythrai, Ruins, Theatres, Turkey, Views

View of Foca in Asia Minor.

Tags: Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Foça / anc. Phocaea, Houses, Ionia, Mosques, Turkey, Views

Ottoman ships in the harbor of Izmir.

Tags: Aegean sea, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Gulf of Izmir, Gulfs and bays, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Dancing dervishes of the Mevlevi Order, in the Tekes of Pera (Istanbul).

Tags: Beyoğlu / gr. Pera -Stavrodromi, Chandeliers, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Interiors, Istanbul, Mevlevi order, Music, Musicians, Ottomans, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Tekije (Dervish lodge), Thrace, Turkey

Landscape on Mount Uludağ, near Bursa.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Bursa, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Mount Uludağ / Mysian Olympus, Natural environment, Smoking, Tents, Turkey, Views

View of the eastern shores of the Dardanelles. In the background the Sultaniye Castle.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Boats and ships, Çanakkale, Castles and fortresses, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Houses, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Sultaniye Castle (Sultaniye Kalesi - Çimenlik Kalesi), Turkey, Views

View of Herceg Novi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Herceg Novi / it. Castelnuovo / anc. Neocastron, Houses, Montenegro, Stari Grad Castle, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views

View between Senglea and Vitoriosa in the Grand Harbor of Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Houses, Malta, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Senglea, Valletta, Views, Vitoriosa, Walls

Fig. 1. View of Pula in Croatia. Fig. 2. Iris, the ship in which the author travelled from Malta to the Gulf of Trieste, Italy.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Boats and ships, Croatia, Pula / anc. Polai, Travel, Views

Iris, the ship in which the author travelled from Malta to the Gulf of Trieste, Italy.

Tags: Boats and ships, Travel

Grand Harbour, Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Fishermen, Grand Harbour (Valetta), Houses, Human types, Malta, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Valletta, Views, Walls

The "Oriental", the ship in which the author travelled from Liverpool to the shores of the Iberian peninsula.

Tags: Boats and ships, Travel

Coats of arms. Author's dedication to Prince William of Prussia.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Germany, Princes, Prussia

Title page.

Tags: Egyptian antiquities, Inscriptions, Title page

Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.

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