Browsing category Painted Walls

  This remote mountain tomb between Thebes and Aswan is intriguing not just for its own decorations but also the stylized old graffiti from explorers and tomb raiders who descended on the Nile Valley following Napoleon's Egypt campaign around 1800. As we can see, Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles, the authors of "Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land" passed through in 1817. There's also a tag by the "Great Belzoni", a former circus entertainer who came to Egypt