Early tourists visiting the Pyramids and the ruins of Ancient Egypt, 1860-1930

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By the late eighteenth century, Egypt had been reduced to nothing more than an impoverished and neglected corner of the Ottoman Empire, crippled by endless power struggles among its Mamluk leadership. Then in 1798, Napoleon arrived at the head of a French army, closely followed by the British, who had hitherto shown little interest in […]