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A sphinx made of a large rock guards pyramid of Pharoah Khafre in Egypt.

A scientific documentary depicts ancient Egypt. A view of the sphinx guarding Pharoah Khafre's Pyramid. Large blocks of limestones used to construct the pyramid. The sphinx carved out of a large rock with the body of a lion. Damaged nose of the Sphinx.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064341
Portrait heads of Egyptian nobles and a statue of King Khafre in a valley temple in Egypt.

A scientific documentary depicts ancient Egypt. Portrait heads of nobles placed in tombs as a mark of their permanent residence. A large statue of King Khafre placed in a valley temple. The king sits on a backless throne with the Sematawi, an emblem of unification. A painting of a bird and a sculpture of the Hawk Guard. Sculptures of soldiers with weapons in hand.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064342
Documentary on ancient Egyptian civilization shows Egyptian paintings,statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten and a bust of Nefertiti

A documentary on ancient Egypt. Discusses the reign of Amenhotep IV who changed his name to Akhenaten. Statue of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Stone engraving shows Akhenaten worshiping Sun. Colored Egyptian painting of birds flying. Bust of Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten. Nefertiti means 'The beautiful one has arrived'. Ancient Egyptian painting of ancient Egyptian gods

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025772
Egyptian painting depicting Horemheb and his rule and ancient Egyptian gods

View of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in Egypt. View of series of Ram headed sphinxes. View of Taharqa's column. The Hypostyle Hall in the temple. View of ancient Egyptian statues. Ruins of the temple of Amun at Karnak.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025776
Seamen take launch to board their ship in Suez Canal.

Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056032
United States sailors, of Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters, take time off to visit sites in Egypt.

Map showing Mediterranean area in which U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters operated in 1922. Sailors from the Detachment find time for rest and relaxation in Egypt. Several of the sailors ride camels, setting off to visit the Pyramids (Al Haram, Nazlet El-Semman, Al Giza Desert, Giza Governorate, Egypt) and the Great Sphinx of Giza (Al Giza Desert, Giza Governorate, Egypt), where they sightsee from camelback. Then the group rides very rapidly, some on camels and others on horses and donkeys. Sailors step from railroad car, at Luxor, after traveling 400 miles from Cairo. Sailors riding donkeys across the desert at a local village. The sailors ride through the Valley of Kings and the Avenue of the Sphinxes (Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt), between Karnak and Luxor. Several sailors and their guides climb on some of the sphinxes. Statue of Ramesses the Great in the Temple of Luxor (Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt). Sailors with guides walk avenue between towering remains of Luxor.

Date: 1922
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025990