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 Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 21:28 Post subject: Description de l'Egypte |
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I've been searching for a digital version of this book for a long time, and now that i've found it, i thought i would share.
http://descegy.bibalex.org/
The text is in French, but there are hundreds of beautiful pictures and illustrations.
For those who don't know the book,
| Quote: | | Description de l'Égypte (English: Description of Egypt) is a comprehensive scientific description of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is a publication that is the collaborated work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists, known popularly as the savants, who accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, as well as about 2000 artists and technicians, including 400 engravers, who would later compile it into a full work. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_de_l'Egypte_(1809)
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CaptainCox
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Brilliant!!!!. have been interested in getting this for a long time. I almost ordered it on Amazon like a year ago!. The illustrations are just pure AWESOME CHEERS!
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 21:46 Post subject: |
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nice
i love learning stuff about ancient egypt. ive always been fascinated for some reason. I always catch those documentary shows they have on the discovery channel civilizations chan and the national geographic chan.
Ancient Egypt is possibly the most fascinating of the ancient cultures. I'd say the Miyans come in second and then ancient rome
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 21:51 Post subject: |
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Glad you both like it.
The book in hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
You can find more interesting stuff on the main site.
http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 21:53 Post subject: |
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hey comp, do they give lectures and stuff about ancient egypt? in musems (sp?)
I really want to visit egypt sometime before i hit 40 and i wouldnt mind taking in a few lectures about ancient egypt. Hopefully, they are for tourists and in english lol 
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:05 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | hey comp, do they give lectures and stuff about ancient egypt? in musems (sp?)
I really want to visit egypt sometime before i hit 40 and i wouldnt mind taking in a few lectures about ancient egypt. Hopefully, they are for tourists and in english lol |
You can get lectures and tours in just about any language you want. The tourism services here are some of the best in the world.
And you'll be surprised how many non-ancient Egyptian historical sites and museums there are in Egypt. |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:15 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | hey comp, do they give lectures and stuff about ancient egypt? in musems (sp?)
I really want to visit egypt sometime before i hit 40 and i wouldnt mind taking in a few lectures about ancient egypt. Hopefully, they are for tourists and in english lol |
You can get lectures and tours in just about any language you want. The tourism services here are some of the best in the world.
And you'll be surprised how many non-ancient Egyptian historical sites and museums there are in Egypt. |
Sounds awesome
Whats the tourism industry like? Is Egypt a safe place to go? Like as much as I want to visit jerusalem and such, i would never go because of all the warring going between israel and palestine |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:26 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | Sounds awesome
Whats the tourism industry like? Is Egypt a safe place to go? Like as much as I want to visit jerusalem and such, i would never go because of all the warring going between israel and palestine |
It's about as safe as it gets.
The country as a whole is very safe, add to that the extensive police presence at tourist sites and you have nothing to worry about.
Plus, the people are extremely friendly towards foreigners. |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:28 Post subject: |
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Hmm, maybe the next vacation i take will be to egypt?
Does egypt have luxury hotels? like 5 star ones? When i travel, i like to go all out you know?
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:32 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | Hmm, maybe the next vacation i take will be to egypt?
Does egypt have luxury hotels? like 5 star ones? When i travel, i like to go all out you know? |
We have hundreds of 5 star hotels, in every major city. |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:34 Post subject: |
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Nice
Gunna check it out sometime this weekend. See how much a nice luxury vacation to egypt would cost me. I for sure wanna see the pyramids sometime in my life and the numerous burial tombs ive seen on tv
you lucky to live in such a historically rich country comp. We have historical sights here in Canada too...but nothing compared to the pyramids or the valley of the kings and stuff
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:43 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | Nice
Gunna check it out sometime this weekend. See how much a nice luxury vacation to egypt would cost me. I for sure wanna see the pyramids sometime in my life and the numerous burial tombs ive seen on tv
you lucky to live in such a historically rich country comp. We have historical sights here in Canada too...but nothing compared to the pyramids or the valley of the kings and stuff |
Living next to so much history has its downsides too, you seem to not notice a lot of the stuff around you.
Like it took me 3 years to notice that there is a castle across the street from my university. It's just part of the scenery  |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 22:47 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | Nice
Gunna check it out sometime this weekend. See how much a nice luxury vacation to egypt would cost me. I for sure wanna see the pyramids sometime in my life and the numerous burial tombs ive seen on tv
you lucky to live in such a historically rich country comp. We have historical sights here in Canada too...but nothing compared to the pyramids or the valley of the kings and stuff |
Living next to so much history has its downsides too, you seem to not notice a lot of the stuff around you.
Like it took me 3 years to notice that there is a castle across the street from my university. It's just part of the scenery |
a castle eh? is it a tourist attraction? can you walk about inside of it?
are egyptian castles like english castles? or different in layout? |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 23:03 Post subject: |
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still very cool looking
was that castle actually used by Saladin?
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 23:04 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | still very cool looking
was that castle actually used by Saladin? |
Yes. |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 23:11 Post subject: |
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thats pretty fuckin cool. to stand in the same place as saladin once stood
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Apr 2008 23:29 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | thats pretty fuckin cool. to stand in the same place as saladin once stood |
There are a lot more sites of this nature, from Alexander the Great and the Shah of Iran to Napoléon Bonaparte and Cleopatra (you can actually bath in her royal bath).
Lots of cool stuff  |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 00:42 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | | thats pretty fuckin cool. to stand in the same place as saladin once stood |
There are a lot more sites of this nature, from Alexander the Great and the Shah of Iran to Napoléon Bonaparte and Cleopatra (you can actually bath in her royal bath).
Lots of cool stuff |
thats definetly cool as fuck dude
Do you know of any Egypt tourism websites? in english. Getting there and finding a good hotel is the easy part. Finding stuff to do and knowing where things are is more difficult you know?
Now i dont know where to go. England or Egypt....im leaning towards egypt first as the climate is more to my liking, nice and hot. And there are so many places i'd like to visit in egypt. |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:06 Post subject: |
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Awesome, thanks dude. gunna browse through those sites later on tonite, after lost.
I do have a question tho. How's Alexandria? Ive always wanted to go there. Is there lots of stuff that involves Alexander the Great?
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:16 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | Awesome, thanks dude. gunna browse through those sites later on tonite, after lost.
I do have a question tho. How's Alexandria? Ive always wanted to go there. Is there lots of stuff that involves Alexander the Great? |
Alexandria is my favourite city, lots of Greek and Roman monuments in addition to late middle-age and relatively modern castles. And it's got the great Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
It's also very close to El Alamein, which has all the WWII stuff.
You'll find all the major attractions of each city in the second link |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:20 Post subject: |
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Ok cool. thanks man
Definetly gunna check out those links and bookmark this thread.
The Nile goes through Egypt right? if im correct, can you swim in it?
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:26 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | | The Nile goes through Egypt right? if im correct, can you swim in it? |
You can swim in it, but you don't want to do that. The water isn't as clean as it used to be.
If you want to really swim or dive, go to the coastal cities, lots of world class beaches and resorts. Hurghada especially, being one of the best diving destinations on Earth. |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:32 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | | The Nile goes through Egypt right? if im correct, can you swim in it? |
You can swim in it, but you don't want to do that. The water isn't as clean as it used to be.
If you want to really swim or dive, go to the coastal cities, lots of world class beaches and resorts. Hurghada especially, being one of the best diving destinations on Earth. |
awww, ever since i was kid and saw the 10 commandments with charelton heston ive wanted to swim in the nile
still, from the quick browse i did of those sites, you guys have some awesome looking beaches.
One more question that a website cant answer. How about the women? Are they clean or do you have to be really careful?
Like you know what Im saying? if you go to africa or the caribbean, you dont have sex with the locals cause your chance of getting aids is 50/50 |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:38 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | One more question that a website cant answer. How about the women? Are they clean or do you have to be really careful?
Like you know what Im saying? if you go to africa or the caribbean, you dont have sex with the locals cause your chance of getting aids is 50/50 |
I doubt you'll get much action from Egyptian girls, we're a muslim country after all
But, there are thousands of tourists |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:40 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | One more question that a website cant answer. How about the women? Are they clean or do you have to be really careful?
Like you know what Im saying? if you go to africa or the caribbean, you dont have sex with the locals cause your chance of getting aids is 50/50 |
I doubt you'll get much action from Egyptian girls, we're a muslim country after all
But, there are thousands of tourists |
yeah, but that goldenish skin.....damn sexy dude.
I'd settle for any action (its a vacation after all) but if i go, im hoping to get an egyptia girl. from pics ive seen, they are fuckin smokin |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:47 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | yeah, but that goldenish skin.....damn sexy dude.
I'd settle for any action (its a vacation after all) but if i go, im hoping to get an egyptia girl. from pics ive seen, they are fuckin smokin |
Don't get your hopes up, even the christian girls don't have premarital relationships.
Only action you may get is from professionals, and i don't think you want that.
And aren't you married?  |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:51 Post subject: |
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| compubrain3000 wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | yeah, but that goldenish skin.....damn sexy dude.
I'd settle for any action (its a vacation after all) but if i go, im hoping to get an egyptia girl. from pics ive seen, they are fuckin smokin |
Don't get your hopes up, even the christian girls don't have premarital relationships.
Only action you may get is from professionals, and i don't think you want that.
And aren't you married? |
naw man, we divorce for the second time in october of last year.
If i was married, i wouldnt want action would i?
Well, guess i'll have to stick to other tourists. Maybe find me an english hottie. I'd loe to hear that accent while im pounding away lol
Where do most of your tourists come from? Obviously europe, but what countries? |
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Apr 2008 01:55 Post subject: |
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| SycoShaman wrote: | naw man, we divorce for the second time in october of last year.
If i was married, i wouldnt want action would i?
Well, guess i'll have to stick to other tourists. Maybe find me an english hottie. I'd loe to hear that accent while im pounding away lol
Where do most of your tourists come from? Obviously europe, but what countries? |
Sorry about the marriage.
As for the tourists, lots of Russians, Italians, Germans, Americans, British, Japanese and Chinese. |
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