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Ancient Egypt and the Pyramids in 1837 - Pictures from Colonel Howard Vyse | Ancient Architects

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During my research into ancient history, specifically ancient Egypt, I have spent a huge amount of time delving into the work of Colonel Howard Vyse, a man who led extensive excavations at Giza in Egypt, boasting a number of new discoveries. His three volumes of work, titled ‘Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837’ isn’t just an in-depth descriptions of his excavations, but there are a number of beautiful and detailed illustrations or engravings, of how Giza and other sites across Egypt looked in the mid to late 1830s. So, for this video I have spent time collating all of the main images from the three volumes of work because many of you will never have seen them. They give us a truly fascinating insight into key ancient Egyptian sites long before they were tidied up for tourism, and they come from a man who led the most thorough excavations before modern archaeologists took over. Colonel Howard Vyse is the man who discovered the famous Khufu graffiti in the relieving cham

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