Aswan: Topographic Views
General view over the Nile, looking northeast, showing the cataract with Elephant island at left and the Old Cataract Hotel at far right; Aswan is an Egyptian city at the northern end of the first Nile cataract, about 900 km south of Cairo. The modern town chiefly stretches along the eastern bank of...
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ftmitdome:oai:dome.mit.edu:1721.3/114419 2023-05-15T16:04:58+02:00 Aswan: Topographic Views Gilchrist, Scott Scott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960) Creation Site: Aswan, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa, 2003 (creation) 2003 image/jpeg http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/114419 unknown 206551 archrefid: 928 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/114419 1A2-EG-AS-A7 © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only MIT architectural exteriors contemporary (1960 to present) landscapes Nile River topographical views Twenty-first century image 2003 ftmitdome 2022-03-15T17:58:05Z General view over the Nile, looking northeast, showing the cataract with Elephant island at left and the Old Cataract Hotel at far right; Aswan is an Egyptian city at the northern end of the first Nile cataract, about 900 km south of Cairo. The modern town chiefly stretches along the eastern bank of a sandstone valley, which also contains numerous islands formed by the granite outcrops of the cataract; its ancient monuments are found on both the east and west banks and on some of the islands. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/17/2008) Still Image Elephant Island MIT Libraries Dome Elephant Island ENVELOPE(-55.184,-55.184,-61.085,-61.085) |
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General view over the Nile, looking northeast, showing the cataract with Elephant island at left and the Old Cataract Hotel at far right; Aswan is an Egyptian city at the northern end of the first Nile cataract, about 900 km south of Cairo. The modern town chiefly stretches along the eastern bank of a sandstone valley, which also contains numerous islands formed by the granite outcrops of the cataract; its ancient monuments are found on both the east and west banks and on some of the islands. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/17/2008) |
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Creation Site: Aswan, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa, 2003 (creation) |
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