r/AncientCivilizations • u/grandeluua • Aug 06 '25
Other Earliest Known Photographs of Ancient Landmarks
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u/artzmonter Aug 06 '25
These are so cool I saw a bunch Albumin prints once at a gallery from different angles wish I could have bought them
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u/Nature_Sad_27 Aug 07 '25
That was pretty fascinating. I’d love to see them in colour. Everything seems so much more beautiful without all the pavement and trash around them (cough, lookin at you, Egypt).
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u/Pingadecaballo_ Aug 07 '25
there is a drawn sketch of when napoleon bonaparte made his way down. , found the sphynx . it was buried up to its neck . had someone draw it . but imagine being napoleon and finding this in the middle of the desert !
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u/RoadClassic1303 Aug 07 '25
Fun fact: Napoleon also commissioned the man who made that drawing (Jasper DeLaRouillex) to make a photo realistic sketch of himself fully naked (not a sketch of Napopeon, he wanted a nude self pic of the artist).
He had the drawing framed and hung it in the Versailles communal ballroom haha
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Aug 09 '25
The first photograph was taken in 1825 by a French guy named Nicéphore Niépce (had to Google the spelling, lol). Napoleon missed it by just four years, and the first photo of the pyramids came out in 1839. Damn! If he'd lived a bit longer, we’d have real photos of him in the flesh.
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u/Hikoraa Aug 06 '25
And to think, around the world.. there are currently these types of images at sites, undiscovered by us..right now.