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First Cataract
Other place names at latitude 24.0166667 / longitude 32.8666667| Feature Type | Alternate Name(s) | | Hydrographic | Aswan Cataract; Ash Shallal al Awwal; First Cataract; Shallal |
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The Nilometer (measure of inundations), IsLand of Elephantine, first cataract, Egypt. (86)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Children standing on nilometer; boat in background
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Niney-two foot obelisk still lying in the Assuan granite quarry at the first cataract, Egypt. (87)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Man stands on a fallen obelisk in the ground
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Second cataract of the Nile from the S.W., the first obstruction to navigation for 1000 miles--Egypt. (98)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Man at the second cataract of...
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Egypt, handbook for travellers: part second, upper Egypt, with Nubia as far as the second cataract and the western oases [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Baedeker, Karl |
Date: 1892 |
Egypt, handbook for travellers : part second, upper...
cataract and the western oases [Electronic
Edition...:
UPPER EGYPT, WITH NUBIA AS FAR AS THE SECOND CATARACT AND THE WESTERN...
CATARACT... AS THE SECOND
CATARACT AND THE WESTERN OASES
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THE CATARACT AT ASSOUAN
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1909 |
Pastel drawing of sailboats docked on the banks of the Nile before the cataract...
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The Second Cataract of the Nile
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1906 |
A view of the Second Cataract of...
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Assouan and the Cataract Hotel
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1906 |
A view of the Nile River at Assouan, with two boats in the foreground and a hotel in the background.
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The Nile from Assuan to the Second Cataract
| Creator: Unknown |
Date: 1914 |
A map in two sections of the Nile River from Assuan to the Second Cataract, showing cities,...
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The Oriental Lounge of the Cataract Hotel at Assuan.
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1911 |
A photo of several men and women sitting in an outdoor lounge overlooking a river and mountain.
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Hand-book for travellers in Egypt; including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. Being a new edition, corrected and condensed, of "Modern Egypt and Thebes" [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875 |
Date: 1847 |
Partial contents: SECTION I. EGYPT -- SECTION II. CAIRO -- SECTION III. UPPER EGYPT, BETWEEN CAIRO...
. — Thebes to Asouan, the first Cataract, Elephantine, Sehayl, and Philæ... to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids,
and Thebes...;
INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COURSE OF THE NILE TO THE SECOND CATARACT... Cataract — Isle of Philæ,
Temples, and other Ruins
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Saint's Tomb in the Desert Behind the Cataract Hotel at Assuan.
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1911 |
The ruins of a domed, brick structure are pictured.
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Wonderfully preserved temple of Edfu, The, seen (N.) from top of first pylon--Egypt. (82)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
View of the temple of Edfu
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The First pylon of Ramses III's great mortuary temple at Medinet Habu. (view N.), Thebes, Egypt. (77)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Pylon on temple
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The Great Assuan Dam, N.W. from the first pylon of the Philae Temple--Egypt. (91)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Two men on top of pylon; two men below on rock; boat in river
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Magnificent desolation--the deserted temple of Luxor, S.W. from top of the first pylon, Egypt (48)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
View of the temple of Luxor
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Great court of the Karnak temple seen (S.E.) from the top of the first pylon, Thebes, Egypt. (56)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Ruins of temple
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Egypt through the stereoscope : a journey through the land of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 |
Date: 1908 |
Contents: INTRODUCTION -- THE STORY OF EGYPT -- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE -- MAPS AND PLANS
of Elephantine, first cataract... at the first cataract...
(first cataract... of men and the first attempt at a pyramid, Sakkarah
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Remarkable inscription of a Seven Years' Famine, on the IsLand of Sehel (1st cataract)--Egypt. (88)
| Creator: Underwood & Underwood |
Date: 1904 |
Child standing by an inscription
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The Sphinx Between the First and Second Pyramids. From a Photograph Taken by the Author about 6 a.m., After Sleeping at the Foot of the Sphinx.
| Creator: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 |
Date: 1911 |
The Great Sphinx with two pyramids behind. Black-and-white photograph.
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Leading Nineteenth Century Publishers of Travel Guidebooks to Egypt
| Creator: Lisa Spiro |
Date: 2007-11-14T21:06:45Z |
Part of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), this module describes the history of...
(the First Cataract); in 1874, he extended the service to the Sudanese border... that produced the first modern travel guides (Thompson 167). In 1836, John Murray, son of the publisher of Byron, brought out his first travel book, A Hand Book...’s first handbook that included Egypt was Handbook to the East (1840). In 1847
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A handbook for travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: John Murray (Firm) |
Date: 1888 |
Contents: PART I. SECTION I. GENERAL INFORMATION. -- SECTION II. ALEXANDRIA AND THE WEST OF THE...
the Handbook remained the same as
when it was first published... by the complete account
now given for the first time of the Mosques, Tombs
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Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Thomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author] |
Date: 1897 |
Contents: PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR TRAVELLERS. -- EGYPT. -- ALEXANDRIA. -- RAMLEH -- ALEXANDRIA TO...
Cairo to the First Cataract on the Nile...
First to Second Cataract on the Nile... TO THE FIRST CATARACT... development of modern
travel, the Second Cataract of the Nile
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The Death of the First-born
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1878 |
Stylized depiction of a young boy being killed.
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Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Kelly, Robert Talbot, 1861-1934 |
Date: 1910 |
Contents: CHAPTER I ITS ANTIQUITY -- CHAPTER II THE LAND -- CHAPTER III CAIRO—I -- CHAPTER...
THE FIRST CATARACT FROM ELEPHANTINE ISLAND... before
Egbert was crowned first King of England, continues... beautiful art they created, first in Egypt
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The Nile from Demhid to the Second Cataract
| Creator: Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899; Wagner & Debes |
Date: 1898 |
A map in which two sections of the Nile River are presented side-by-side and in false orientation,...
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Egypt: handbook for travellers [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Baedeker, Karl |
Date: 1898 |
Egypt : handbook for travellers [Electronic Edition]
...
. and First Floor, p. 87; TEMPLE OF AMMON AT KARNAK, p.
239...
particulars in small type. A first visit to the Temple of Dendera, for example....
The materials for the first edition of the volume on Lower Egypt
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Egypt: handbook for travellers [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Baedeker, Karl |
Date: 1908 |
Egypt and the Sudân; handbook for...
, will find additional particulars in small type. A first visit
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A Thousand Miles Up The Nile [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 |
Date: 1890 |
Contents: CHAPTER I. CAIRO AND THE GREAT PYRAMID. -- CHAPTER II. CAIRO AND THE MECCA PILGRIMAGE --...
FIRST... TO THE FIRST EDITION... weeks. We also saw the wrecks of three steamers between Cairo and the First
Cataract. It certainly seemed to us that the old-fashioned
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Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 |
Date: 1874 |
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia [Electronic Edition]
...
. The
First Cataract...
Aboard—First
Night...—
First
Impressions...—The
Reises of the
Cataract
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The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934. (Ernest Alfred Wallis) |
Date: 1902 |
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt [Electronic...
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First Steps in Egyptian. Demy 8vo. 9s. net...
The First Cataract... the
First
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To-day on the Nile [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Dunning, Harry Westbrook, 1871- |
Date: 1905 |
Contents: CHAPTER I CAIRO AND THE PYRAMIDS -- CHAPTER II MEMPHIS AND SAQQARA -- CHAPTER III A...
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BY JAMES POTT & CO.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS, NOVEMBER, 1905.... But when he first sets foot on her shores,
or rather even when his thoughts first turn thither, he feels
that Egypt..., but the combined account of six. On a first trip the
traveler
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Egypt, handbook for travellers.Pt. 1. Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Baedeker, Karl |
Date: 1885 |
Contents: I. Preliminary Information -- II. Geographical and Political Notice (by Dr. G....
of Sinai," represents the first volume of a two volume set. Part 2... as
far as the second cataract and the western oases...
PART FIRST: LOWER
EGYPT, WITH THE FAYÛM....
The materials from which the first edition of the Handbook for Lower Egypt
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The land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil. [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Manning, Samuel, 1822-1881 |
Date: 1875 |
Contents: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ALEXANDRIA TO CAIRO. -- CAIRO TO ASSOUAN. -- ASSOUAN TO...
.’ If the
student of Holy Scripture gives the first place in his...
Cataract...
reverential awe, that I first gazed upon the soil which... who were for the first time
visiting Mohammedan
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Letters From Egypt, 1863-65 [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869 |
Date: 1865 |
Letters From Egypt, 1863–65. [Electronic Edition]
...
, and
the first... of the manners and morals of Arabs which I
at first determined.... Such is my first impression of the
land of Egypt; but Omar's... to the Upper Cataract as soon as we can, and come
leisurely back
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Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Baedeker, Karl |
Date: 1914 |
Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers...
for the
first time in the present edition. The spelling of the names on the maps
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The story of Cairo, by Stanley Lane-Poole [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 |
Date: 1918 |
Contents: CHAPTER I -- The Two Cities -- CHAPTER II The Town of the Tent -- CHAPTER III The...
First
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Life of Edward William Lane [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 |
Date: 1877 |
Contents: PREFACE. -- 1801—1876. -- EDWARD WILLIAM LANE. 1801—1825. ---1825—1828. THE FIRST...
first visit to the East; certain note-books kept by him during his first...—1828.
THE FIRST...
mother was Sophia Gardiner, a niece of Gainsborough the Painter. At first his... days' experience
of university life as it was in the first
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The city of the caliphs; a popular study of Cairo and its environs and the Nile and its antiquities [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. b. 1857? (Eustace Alfred) |
Date: 1898 |
Contents: THE CITY OF THE CALIPHS. INTRODUCTION. -- CHAPTER I. EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS. --...
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FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND
CATARACT..., — first as the capital of the
Caliphs, and next as the chief... the
distinction, Menes and the kings of the first dynasty are
designated as the first earthly kings of Egypt.
As to the origin
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Hypostyle Hall, Karnak
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1890 |
Hallway of large pillars, with the first leaning heavily to...
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New Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Guerville, A. B. de 1869- (Amédée Baillot de) |
Date: 1906 |
New Egypt [Electronic Edition]
...
and the Cataract Hotel...
The Second Cataract of the Nile..., but Japan is
too seductive. Go, my dear chap. Not your first
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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 |
Date: 1911 |
Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Edition]
...
Cataract Hotel. Luxor,
that has never known a winter, has... for the first time a perfect temple of
ancient Egypt...
OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN
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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 |
Date: 1911 |
Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Edition]
...
Cataract Hotel. Luxor,
that has never known a winter, has... for the first time a perfect temple of
ancient Egypt...
OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN
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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947 |
Date: 1911 |
Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Edition]
...
Cataract Hotel. Luxor,
that has never known a winter, has... for the first time a perfect temple of
ancient Egypt...
OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN
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An account of the manners and customs of the modern egyptians. Written in Egypt during the years 1833—1835. [Electronic Version]
| Creator: Lane, E. W. (Edward William), 1801-1876 |
Date: 1890 |
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern...
companions; in 1826 he ascended the Nile to the
Second Cataract...
fourth Duke of Northumberland) munificence that first enabled...
first visit to this country did not, however, suffice..., and in the first two pages (in the 8vo. edition) of the section
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Ground plan of the Tomb of Seti I. B.C. 1366. And Section of the Tomb of Seti I.
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1902 |
Two images: The first is a birds-eye view depiction of the Tomb of Seti I, while the second...
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Head-dresses of Kings
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1890 |
Two quite different headdresses, the first with a level row of 5 rings across the top of...
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Priest Preparing Mummy for Burial. [and] Resurrection of the Body.
| Creator: unknown |
Date: 1884 |
Two images: The first shows three men working on a body and preparing it for burial. They...
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Plan of Alexandria
| Creator: Unknown |
Date: 1847 |
A map of Alexandria showing the topographical features of the area. The city is divided into...
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Map of Egypt
| Creator: Unknown |
Date: 1847 |
A greyscale map of the Nile's course through Egypt, with cities labeled. No topographical...
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