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Orient statt Mecklenburg
Die Reisen des Grafen und der Gräfin von Schlieffen 1850 bis 1853
Count Wilhelm von Schlieffen and his mother Countess Sophie von Schlieffen, née von Jagow, travelled through Egypt and Sudan in the years 1851–1853. In their travel journal,...
Shepheard’s of Cairo
The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel
The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little...
Reise durch Nubien – Fotos einer Expedition um 1900
Travels in Nubia – Photographs of an expedition around 1900
Nubia around 1900, sunken worlds on rediscovered photographs from the Egyptian Museum Berlin; in the course of indexing the museum's photographic archive, 340 photographs from an...
Zur Kur an den Nil
Die Ägyptenreise von Max und Otto Meyerhof im Winter 1900/01
„Zur Kur an den Nil“ is the commented edition of a travelogue from winter 1900/01 written by the German-Jewish Ophthalmologist and Orientalist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945). It was...
Boote, Burgen, Bischarin
Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900
In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the...
Westcar on the Nile
A journey through Egypt in the 1820s
On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the...