Nile Collection (page 52)

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Nile Crocodile catching wildebeest / Gnu calf (Crocodylus niloticus) Date:

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Nile Crocodile - feeding on hippo carcass in water (Crocodylus niloticus) Date:

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Nile Monitor / Water Leguaan / River Leguaan (Varanus niloticus) Date:

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Nile Crocodile - in the Olifants River - photographed from a high-level bridge (Crocodylus niloticus) Date:

Tourist boat cruising the Nile in front of the Murchison Falls (Kabarega Falls) on the Nile, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Sunrise over the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Ferry over the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Murchison Falls (Kabarega Falls) on the Nile, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Murchison Falls, also known as Kabarega Falls on the Nile, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, Africa

White-breasted cormorants (Phalacrocorax lucidus) sitting on a tree on a little island at the source of the Nile, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Local fisherman in a dugout canoe in Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Nile Falls near Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

View over the Nile at the source of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Fishermen in their canoes fishing at sunset on the Nile at Jinja, source of the Nile, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Source of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Boat with tourists shipping around the source of the Nile, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Tourist boat anchoring on a little island at the source of the Nile, where the Nile starts, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Little island at the source of the Nile, where the Nile starts, Jinja, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

Nilometer, remains of ancient device for measuring annual inundation of the Nile. Annual flooding vitally important to Egypt as it governed fertility of soil

One of the Seven Plagues of Egypt. The water of the Nile turned blood red. An algol bloomja. John Martin (1789-1854) British painter. Oil on canvas. Private Collection

Papyrus depicting workers next to the river with a boat on the Nile

Siege of Damietta, Nile Delta. Important commercial centre for Arab textile trade. Briefly in Crusader hands 1219-21, 1249-50 (6th and 7th crusades)

Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798. English fleet under Nelson destroyed French fleet in Abuokir or Abu Qir Bay. Battle fought at night. French vessel L Orient exploding at about 10 o clock. Engraving

A Kanja on the Nile at Luxor, with the Temple of Luxor behind, 1838-1843. Watercolour. Achille-Constant Prisse d Avennes (1807-1809) French architect. Egypt River Boat Oars

On the Nile, 1903 Watercolour. Robert Talbot-Kelly (1861-1934) English orientalist landscape painter. Dhow sailing on the river. In background are tall cliffs with fringe of palm trees at their foot

Abu Simbel, Watercolour. Robert Talbot-Kelly (1861-1934) English orientalist landscape painter. The great limestone statues of Ramses II at the entrance viewed from the River Nile

Gebel-el-Mody - Nubia, 1861. Watercolour. Elijah Walton (1832-1880) British artist. Egypt Landscape River Nile

View of Manfaloot. Watercolour. John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) English explorer and Egyptologist. Town by River Nile, with minaret, palm trees, and boats at anchor. Egypt

The artist arriving at the Second Cataract and writing his name on a rock, 14 May 1838. Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872) French architect. River Nile Egypt

View of Aswan, Egypt. Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872) French architect. View of Nile and boats from the bank, minaret in background

Temple of Medinet Habu. Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872) French architect. Mortuary temple of Rameses III on West Bank of the Nile at Luxor

View of the Nile. Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872) French architect. River viewed through boats tied up at quayside. Egypt

Abu Simbel viewed from the Nile. Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872) French Architect. Nearest is Temple of Hathor. Furthest are statues of Rameses II (ruled c1304-c1273 BC) outside main temple

The Island of Philae. Watercolour by John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) British traveller and archaeologist, the Father of British Egyptology. Ancient Egyptian temple complex on the Nile near Aswan

The Nile at the Second Cataract. Watercolour by John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) British traveller and archaeologist, the Father of British Egyptology

Kum Ombo Watercolour by Hector Horeau (1801-1872), French architect. View of the ruins of the Ancient Egyptian twin temples from the Nile about 28 miles north of Aswan

JWPs kanja moored beside the East bank of the Nile at Luxor, 1838-1843. Watercolour. Emile Prisse d Avennes, (1807-1879) French architect, engineer and orientalist. Egypt

Kom Ombo, November 1838. Lithograph of 1856 after David Roberts (1796-1864) Scottish artist and orientalist. Temple on Nile 30 miles north of Aswan, Egypt, built 332 BC-395 AD

The Nile near Bulak, 1868. Watercolour by Henry Pilleau (1813-1899) English artist. View of River Nile with Pyramids of Giza in left background

View of the Nile at the Second Cataract. Watercolour. Nestor l Hote (1804-1842) French Egyptologist. The Second or Great Cataract, Nubia, was submerged by Lake Nasser

View of Philae. Lithograph after Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) Prussian Egyptologist. View across the Nile to the temples on the island of Philae

View of the Nile, Oil on canvas. Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876) French painter and writer

The Battle of the Nile, 1800. The battle was fought at night in Abu Qir Bay, near Alexandria, Nelson found the French fleet at anchor and attacked

Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) 1 August 1798: French Revolutionary Wars. Captain Casabianca and his son on the French flagship Orient which exploded with the loss of more than 1, 000 men

Feluccas on the Nile, Elephantine Island near Aswan, modern Egypt

Louis IX (1215-1270) King of France from 1226, known as St Louis. Louis and crusaders after defeat at Mansourah during the Sixth Crusade (1248-1254) retreat towards Damietta (Nile Delta)

Saint Louis (Louis IX of France) on his first (the Sixth) crusade disembarking of Damietta (Nile Delta) which he captured in 1249. Saracen army at top right

Wall painting from tomb of Sennefer, Abydos, 18th Dynasty, showing boat on the Nile with square-rigged sail and oarsmen

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