Arab with Three Wives and Two Servants
The Zangaki brothers occasionally worked with the Port Said photographer, Hippolyte Arnoux.
Many of the Zangaki photographs are signed with a brother’s initial and/or a place of business, e.g., “C. Zangaki” or “Zangaki, Cairo”. The Zangaki brothers traveled along the Nile accompanied with a horse-drawn darkroom wagon to document the Egyptian scenery and events. Images included views of the pyramids, e.g., Cheops or the Sphinx and the cities, e.g., Suez or Alexandria, as well of Egyptians going about their daily lives, e.g., a teacher and pupils, men by the Nile, or women at home.
The Great Sphinx of Giza.
European tourists
A Bicharin soldier. The Bicharin are a tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group that live in southern Egypt and Sudan.
European tourists and local guides climb one of the pyramids at Giza.
Nubian
Arabic professor, Cairo.
Bicharin soldier on a camel.
Men at the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The mummy of Seti I, who reigned around 1290-1279 BCE.
Bicharin woman.
Bicharin man.
Turkish dancer.
Vendors in a bazaar.
Barber
Obelisk of Heliopolis.
Tourist and guides with camel.
Students in the Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo.
A ship in the Suez Canal.
Alexandria
Bicharin men on camels.
Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqar.
Via Europeana
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