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View of the ruins of Antinopolis, today Sheikh Ibada, Egypt.

Tags: Antinopolis / Ansena / mod. Sheikh Ibada, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Houses, Human types, Ruins, Views

Interior view of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, near Luxor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian architecture, Egyptian monuments, Egyptian temples, Esna / anc. Latopolis, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Interiors, Temple of Esna, Thebes / Luxor, Views

View of the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo, or Temple of Sobek and Haroeris, Egyptian deities, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Kom Ombo / anc. Omboi, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ruins, Temple of Kom Ombo, Temple of Sobek and Haroeris (Kom Ombo), Views

View of the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian quarries, Gebel el-Silsila, Human types, Nile river, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Quarries, Reliefs, Rivers, Views

View of the Kiosk of Trajan, on the island Philae, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Islands, Nubia, Nubians, Philae, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Trajan, Trajan's Kiosk (Philae island), Views

View of the Temple of Debod, dedicated to Isis of Philae, island near Aswan. The temple is today in Madrid.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Debod, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Madrid, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Debod, Temple of Isis (Philae), Views

View of the Temple of Dendur, near Aswan. This Temple was ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus, and was dedicated to Isis and Osiris. The temple is today at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian architecture, Egyptian temples, Ethnic groups, Hieroglyphs, Human types, Nubians, Temple of Isis and Osiris at Dendur (Aswan), Views

View of the Hellenistic Temple of Thoth in Dakka, Egypt.

Tags: Ad-Dakka, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Temple of Thoth (Dakka), Views

View of the Hellenistic Temple of Serapis in Meharakka, location between Amada and Wadi es-Sebua.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Birds, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian gods / deities, Egyptian temples, Human types, Meharrakka, Nubia, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Ruins, Serapis, Temple of Serapis (Meharakka), Views, Wadi es-Sebua

Quarries in Qertassi, near Aswan. The author claims to have discovered over sixty inscriptions in Greek at the location.

Tags: Aswan / anc. Syene, Egypt, Human types, Natural environment, Nubia, Pharaonic quarries, Qertassi, Quarries, Views

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Panoramic view of Topkapi Palace from one of the minarets of Hagia Sophia. In the foreground the Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III. In the background Prince islands.

Panoramic view of the Topkapi Palace from one of the minarets of Hagia Sophia. In the foreground the first courtyard of the palace with Hagia Irene on the left. In the background the Gate of Salutation, the Tower of Justice, the Divan and the imperial kitchens.

Panoramic view of Istanbul from one of the minarets of Hagia Sophia. On the right part of the Topkapi Palace. In the background the mosques of Sultan Suleiman I and Mehmet II.

Panoramic view of the Seraglio Point from one of the minarets of Hagia Sophia. On the left the University of Abdülmecid. In the background the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I, the Obelisks of the Hippodrome of Constantinople and the Sea of Marmara.

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