Photograph - 'Obelisk at Matarieh', Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna, World War I, 1914-1915, One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include the 7th Battalion training in Mena Camp, Egypt, and sight-seeing. Image depicting the Obelisk at Matarieh. This obelisk was erected by Senwasret I, the second Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty of Egypt, and is the only surviving relic of the Temple to the Sun that
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Photograph, Obelisk, Matarieh, Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna, World War I, 1914-1915, 139 photographs, album, photographs include, 7th Battalion training, Mena Camp, sight-seeing, Image depicting, obelisk, erected, Senwasret I, second Pharaoh, twelfth dynasty, surviving relic, Temple, Sun
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