Submitted by bellhalla on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 3:09pm.
Over the last 150 years they've really dug those columns out! If you match up the chips/marks in the some of them, you can see that almost half of the current height was underground in 1858. Cool.
Submitted by zoltarpanaflex on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 4:22pm.
I have multiple albums of photographs from the late 1870's of a trip taken to Egypt and the surrounding areas, never have been scanned, I ought to do so, some of the pictures are amazing. All are large photographs....
Submitted by IDLERACER on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 1:42pm.
1858!? Holy cow, this could just as easily have been taken in 1958! I wonder just how many pre-civil war photographs actually exist. There couldn't possibly have been very many cameras in existence at the time.
[At the very least, many thousands of photographs from the era survive as daguerreotypes, prints and glass negatives. Photography had been around for a quarter of a century in 1858. - Dave]
Submitted by Stan from Luxor on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 5:55pm.
The picture is not of Karnak - it's the Colonnade in Luxor Temple, with the mosque of Abu el Haggag in the background - but otherwise it's a wonderful picture.
Submitted by robertsheila on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 1:53pm.
wow. really fantastic! way to document! what's so fascinating is the dress of the people. reminds me of that old silent movie Grass. really great image.
