{"id":2635,"date":"2017-09-01T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egyptologyencyclopedia.org\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2017-09-01T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:35:00","slug":"excavations-near-the-sphinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egyptologyencyclopedia.org\/de\/excavations-near-the-sphinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavations near the Sphinx"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The son of a banker from Boston who lived in Paris, Greene was an archaeologist who learned to use Gustave Le Gray’s waxed-paper process, the photographic technique of choice in the mid-nineteenth century for traveling Frenchmen. In 1853 he made the first of two expeditions to Egypt and Nubia, bringing back more than two hundred negatives of monuments and landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Giza, Greene photographed the great pyramids and sphinx that had towered above the desert sands for millennia, but he also pointed his camera downward, to the excavations that were just then bringing to light the long-buried Valley Temple of Khafre and the causeway that led to his pyramid, barely seen in the top left corner. The excavations were led by the French archaeologist Fran\u00e7ois Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, and although all the carefully posed people in Greene\u2019s photograph appear to be Egyptian, the French presence is felt nonetheless: the tricolor flies from a flagpole on the head of the sphinx, a colonizing symbol of the country\u2019s stake in the recovery of Egypt\u2019s ancient past.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The son of a banker from Boston who lived in Paris, Greene was an archaeologist who learned to use Gustave Le Gray’s waxed-paper process, the photographic technique of choice in the mid-nineteenth century for traveling Frenchmen. In 1853 he made the first of two expeditions to Egypt and Nubia, bringing back more than two hundred … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Excavations near the Sphinx”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t