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Voyages and Expeditions: Scientific Expedition to Egypt

Four Digital Voyages/Expeditions Exhibits at the Linda Hall Library: Ice A Victorian Romance; Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt; Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations 1679-1859; Grandeur of Life

A Felucca on the Nile

A felucca, the traditional sailing vessel of the Nile, leaving the rock tombs at Silsilis, just south of Edfu, in Upper Egypt. From the Description de l'Egypte Antiquites, 1809-1828.

LHL Digital Collection: Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt

Medinut Habu, the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III

Two French engineers explore Medinut Habu, which is across the Nile from Thebes, near the Valley of the Kings. From the Description de l'Egypte Antiquites, 1809-1828.

LHL Digital Collection: Napoleon and the Scientific Expedition to Egypt

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