3-070-567 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in Egypt: the Ruins of Thebes - tomb of a sheikh, 1883. 'The architectural wonders of Karnak and Luxor, part of the ancient city of Thebes, the capital of the mighty Kings of Egypt three thousand years ago, have often been described. The greater is Karnak, a collection of temples grouped around a chief temple, built at the epoch of the eighteenth to the twentieth dynasties of the Pharaohs, when Egyptian art was at its highest perfection...In the valley on the opposite side of the Nile are the grotto-sepulchres of Ramses III. and other Kings of his dynasty; but the natives of Egypt at this day, as might be expected, regard with much more veneration the tomb of a Sheikh, or of a famous Mussulman saint'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.