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c.1898. Formally attired Victorian holidaymakers nap after having a wine-fuelled picnic inside a temple. Victorian Archaeologist, Victorian Egypt, Influence Book, Elizabeth Peters, Egypt Vintage, Travel Egypt, Old Egypt, Visit Egypt, Antique Pictures

Photographs of the Pyramids of Giza taken at the height of colonialism show tourists climbing the massive structures and offer more insight into the evolution of tourism in Egypt. While it’s forbidden for tourists nowadays to clamber up Egypt’s pyramids to take a snap, back in Victorian times it was all the rage. European holidaymakers clad in three-piece suits or long formal dresses and hats had their photographs taken while climbing landmarks and sitting on top of camels at the country’s…

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