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  • Two Egyptian peasants, the man smokes a pipe and the woman has a basket on her head. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.
  • A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Egypt: the river Nile near Akhmim. Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.
  • Military figures behind two children as figures on a table football game, representing the International Committee of the Red Cross in Egypt. Colour lithograph by Creco Adv., ca. 2000.
  • An Egyptian man is playing a large harp adorned with the figurehead of a woman. Engraving.
  • A contented family of four representing the Family planning Project in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MInistry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • An Egyptian barber shaving a man; a boy assistant looks on. Engraving by G.B. Cecchi after Vivant-Denon.
  • Engineering: a portable pumping engine, used in Egypt. Coloured lithograph, [post 1875].
  • Papyros Ebers : das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift / herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers. Mit hieroglyphisch-lateinischem Glossar, von Ludwig Stern. Mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium.
  • Arabic surgical instruments: nineteen figures. Coloured lithograph by F. Cazenave after J.J. Rifaud, ca. 1830.
  • An Egyptian woman feeding her baby. Lithograph, ca. 1950.
  • A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
  • Desert-dwelling reptile from Egypt: two figures, the lower showing the reptile's skeleton. Coloured lithograph by Ch. Normand after J.J. Rifaud, 1830.
  • Men talking and smoking by the ruined Temple of Amun at Thebes. Coloured lithograph, c. 1849, by L. Haghe after D. Roberts.
  • The Papyrus Ebers / translated from the German version by Cyril P. Bryan ... with an introduction by Professor J. Elliot Smith.
  • Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882: invalid British soldiers on a boat on the Nile. Wood engraving by P.A. or R.A., 1882.
  • ... The burial customs of ancient Egypt as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom : being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hassan during 1902-3-4 / by John Garstang; with coloured frontispiece by Mr. G. Hall Neale, 15 plates, and 231 photographic illustrations in the text.
  • Egyptian mummies / by G. Elliot Smith and Warren R. Dawson ; with woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations.
  • Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • The Papyrus Ebers / translated from the German version by Cyril P. Bryan ... with an introduction by Professor J. Elliot Smith.
  • Embarking sick below third cataract. Coloured lithograph by J.G. Keulemans after W.W.C. Verner.
  • Family planning in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MOH Family Planning Project, 1990.
  • Egypt: Bedouins exercising on horseback; women collecting water from the well which they are carrying in flagons on their heads; men collecting water from a well. Engraving by L. Garreau, 1802, after M. Rigo.
  • The tender mercies of Bonaparte in Egypt! : Britons beware / Robert Wilson, K.M.T., Lieutenant Colonel.
  • The bazaar of the silk mercers in Cairo with a man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.
  • A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands.
  • Bani Suef, Egypt: tomb of Sheikh Abu Hashīma near El Shantur. Photograph by W.S. Blackman, 192-.
  • Bani Suef, Egypt: tomb of Sheikh Husein el-Gharbaivi. Photograph by W.S. Blackman, 192-.
  • Agriculture: two Egyptian fellahin with a plough in the left foreground, in the background two oxen yolked to a similar plough till the soil. Etching.