The Big Foto

1 Egypt. Gizeh. Sphinx and Pyramid. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

2 Egypt. Gizeh. Great sphinx and pyramids. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

3 Great Sphinx, Gizeh, 4th Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

4 Sphinx and Pyramids. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

5 The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. Francis Frith,1858. Credit: National Galleries of Scotland #

6 Egypt - The Ramesseum, Head of Colossus of Ramses II, Thebes. 19 Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

7 Thebes: Ramesseum., n.d., This slide colored by Joseph Hawkes. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

8 Egypt - Great hall, Karnak. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Goodyear Archival Collection #

9 Egypt - Philae. Pylon., n.d., This slide colored by Joseph Hawkes. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

10 Egypt - Temple of Dandous, Nubia [?]. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Goodyear Archival Collection #

11 Chapel, Tomb of Nefer-Seshem-Ptah. Sakkara. 6th Dynasty. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

12 Egypt - Temple of Isis, Sphinx in front of South Pylon. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

13 Egypt - Obelisk, Alexandria. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Goodyear Archival Collection #

14 Egypt - Denderah. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

15 Egypt - Karnak. Gate and Pylon. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

16 Temple of Philae, Egypt., 1908. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

17 Egypt - Philae. Temple of Isis., n.d., J. Levy & Cie Succrs. de Ferrier Pere, Fils & Soulier, Paris. Stereoscopic and Lantern Slides. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

18 The Hypaethral Temple, Philae. Francis Frith, 1857 Credit: National Galleries of Scotland #

19 Egypt - Philae. Temple of Isis. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

20 Egypt - Ketussi, Nubia. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Goodyear Archival Collection #

21 Egyptian - Old Kingdom. Step Pyramid of Meidum, 4th Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

22 Egyptian - Old Kingdom. Step Pyramid of Zoser, Sakkara, 3rd Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

23 Step mastaba Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser - AKA Djozer, Zoser - reputed to be the design of physician architect Imhotep. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

24 Egyptian - Old Kingdom. Step Pyramid and limestone columns, Sakkara, 3rd Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

25 Old Kingdom. Step Pyramid and enclosure, Sakkara, 3rd Dyn. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

26 The Pyramids of Sakkarah from the North East. Francis Frith, 1858. Credit: National Galleries of Scotland #

27 Temple at Abu Simbel., n.d. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

28 Egypt. Abu Simbel, Temple of Ramses II . Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

29 Interior of Great Hall, Abu Simbel. Rock cut. Dy 19., n.d. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

30 Abu Simbel is the modern Arabic name for the site. The statues are all of Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's greatest, and most prolific, pharaohs. This temple featured his likeness, and the temple next to it featured his wife, Nefertari. Abu Simbel was actually moved in the 1970s when Egypt decided to build the Aswan Dam, because the lake would cover the temples. The move was very precise. The temple was built so that the sun would shine into the inner temple one day a year, supposedly the day of Ramses' coronation. The engineers that moved the temple didn't hit the exact day...they were off by only one day, though. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

31 Egypt - Abu Simbel. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #

32 Hand tinted slide - This rock cut temple was built (one of two side by side) by Ramses II, 19th dynasty, (1314-1224 B.C.) honoring the Gods Amon Re (Amun Re) Re Horakhte, near Aswan. In 1966 to 1968, they were cut away from the rock face in large pieces, moved to higher ground and reassembled, to save them from the rising water level, due to the Aswan Dam. The facade statues are 67 feet tall. Scale is evident by tourist standing in foreground. Credit: Brooklyn Museum / Lantern Slide Collection #