Monuments of Ancient Egypt (1924-1939)

Statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his wife in a museum in Cairo.

View of one of the statues.

Statue by the fountain in front of one of the museums in Egypt.

Egyptian writing carved in stone.

Panorama of the colonnade of the temple in Luxor.

Views of the Egyptian pyramids.

Figures of the pyramid builders carved on the wall.

Excavations in Egypt in 1924-1928. Panorama of part of the Nile bank.

Visitors in a museum in Cairo.

Fragment of a sarcophagus.

Clay tablets with writings on a museum display case under glass.

Museum visitors examine the statues.

Head of the Sphinx statue.

Panorama of excavations of one of the temples (above).

Statues in front of the entrance to the temple in Luxor.

A tour of tourists passes by the columns.

Faces of tourists examining the temple.

Panorama and views of the columns of the hall of Amenhotep III. Views of Egyptian villages, everyday life of peasants.

Ruins of temples and surviving statues of pharaohs in different regions of Egypt.

View of one of the statues of the Abu Simbel temple.

Statues of cats and bulls.

Statues of Amenhotep III in Luxor, known as the Colossi of Memnon.

Images of the exploits of the pharaoh, carved on the pedestal of one of the statues.

A tourist examines the statue.

Damaged and destroyed parts of the statues of Amenhotep III. Entrance to the museum building in Cairo.

Exhibits in one of the halls of the museum.

Scooping out water with a hand winch.

Panorama of part of the excavation area.

Workers chip the ground with picks.

Scooping out water from an excavation with a hand winch.

Everyday work of Egyptian peasants, a peasant plowing a field with oxen.

Plowing the land with single-share plows, peasants plowing the land.

A caravan of donkeys loaded with bales of goods.

Women carry baskets on their heads.

A man riding a donkey, followed by a woman with a basket on her head.

Panorama of a part of the exposition of one of the museum halls.

Wooden statue of the priest Kaaper in one of the halls of the museum in Cairo.

Panorama of the exposition of one of the museum halls.

Photographs of excavations in Egypt in the first half of the 1920s.

View of the underground part of one of the temples.

Fragment of an ancient Egyptian fresco depicting people and animals.

Writings on one of the walls of the temple.

Heads of statues in the Temple of Khonsu in Karnak.

Gates of the Temple of Khonsu.

Photographs by Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Semenovich Golenishchev.

Inscription on the monument at Golinishchev's grave.

Photographs by Egyptologists.

Photographs of dilapidated temples.

Excavations in Egypt in the early 1920s.

Clearing the discovered finds from soil.

View of part of the temple ceiling, decorated with paintings.