Maps

In the Exhibition Gallery figures a rare collection of thirteen old maps of Alexandria in particular and Egypt in general. The oldest maps go back to the 15th and 16th centuries, and most of them are extracts from old books dating back to the same period. In Latin transcriptions they portray Lower, Central Egypt, the valley of the Nile as well as other topographical features. Some maps refer to neighboring countries such as Palestine and Libya. The other maps depict Alexandria in the 18th and 19th centuries: the port, streets, alleys, mosques in addition to the military operations between the British and the French armies in 1801. Most of the Alexandrian maps were executed by Egyptian officers and engineers upon the Khedive orders.