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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to archaeological photography |
| Traveling through the Ancient and Classical World |
| 2 | Photographers on the Grand Tour |
| 3 | Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers |
| 4 | Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: The Ancient and Classical World |
| 5 | Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours: Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1842) |
| 6 | Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860) |
| 7 | Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74) |
| Asia |
| 8 | Adolph Schaefer: The Buddhist monument at Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia (1844-1845) |
| 9 | Luigi Pesce: Archaeological sites of Persia (1850s) |
| 10 | Gabriel Tranchard: The excavations of Victor Place at Khorsabad, Iraq (1850s) |
| 11 | Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) |
| 12 | Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) |
| 13 | Pierre Tremaux: Exploration archéologique en Asie Mineure (1862-ca.1868) |
| 14 | Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor |
| 15 | John Thomson: Cambodia: Angkor Thom / Angkor Wat (1866) |
| 16 | John Thomson: The Antiquites of Cambodia (1867) |
| 17 | Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s) |
| 18 | Alexander Svoboda: The Seven Churches of Asia (1869) |
| 19 | John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878) |
| 20 | Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866) |
| 21 | John Henry Haynes: Syria: Palmyra (1884) |
| 22 | Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886) |
| 23 | Turkestan Album: Archaeology in Central Asia (1871-1872) |
| 24 | The Archaeological Survey of India |
| 25 | Isidore van Kinsbergen: The archaeology of Java |
| 26 | C.H. Graves: Boroebodor. Ruins of the world's greatest Buddhist temple, Java. (1902) |
| 27 | Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) and others: Archaeology of the Middle East and work on Arabic Inscriptions |
| 28 | Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s) |
| 29 | Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940) |
| Central America |
| 30 | John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) |
| 31 | Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863) |
| 32 | Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Uxmal |
| 33 | Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Mitla |
| 34 | Désiré Charnay: Mexico: Chichen-Itza |
| 35 | Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s) |
| 36 | Alfred Percival Maudslay: Guatemala: Quiriguá |
| 37 | Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque |
| 38 | Charles Betts Waite: Mexico: Mitla |
| 39 | Teoberto Maler: Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico |
| South America |
| 40 | Arthur Posnansky: Archaeological remains at Tihuanaco, Bolivia (1903-1904) |
| North America |
| 41 | Thomas Easterly: The Destruction of Big Mound (1853-1854) |
| 42 | Massachusetts: Dighton Rock |
| Chile |
| 43 | HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) |
| Peru |
| 44 | Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu |
| 45 | Edward Ranney: Archaeological sites of Peru |
| Greece |
| 46 | Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Parthenon |
| 47 | Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Erechtheion |
| 48 | Greece: Athens: Acropolis: Propylaia |
| 49 | Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) |
| 50 | Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens |
| 51 | Alfred-Nicolas Normand: Greece |
| 52 | Fred Boissonnas: Greece |
| Italy - Rome |
| 53 | Italy: Rome: The Colosseum |
| 54 | Italy: Rome: Arch of Constantine |
| 55 | Italy: Rome: Forum Romanum |
| 56 | Italy: Rome: Forum Traiani |
| 57 | Robert Macpherson: The monuments of Rome |
| 58 | Robert Macpherson: The statues of Rome |
| 59 | James Anderson: The monuments of Rome and is surroundings |
| 60 | John Henry Parker: Recent Excavations in Rome: Made in 1868 |
| 61 | John Henry Parker: Selections from Mr. Parker's Historical Photographs of Rome and Italy, arranged in systematic order, with prefaces to each subject (1879) |
| 62 | Edmond Behles: Rome |
| Italy - Pompeii |
| 63 | Italy: Pompeii |
| 64 | John Shaw Smith: Pompeii |
| 65 | Thomas H. Dyer: The Ruins of Pompeii. A Series of Eighteen Photographic Views (1867) |
| 66 | Giorgio Sommer: Pompeii |
| 67 | Jean Andrieu: Pompeii |
| 68 | Michele Amodio: Pompeii |
| 69 | Auguste Lesouëf: Pompeii (1880) |
| France |
| 70 | Mission Héliographique |
| 71 | France: Pont du Gard |
| England |
| 72 | Philip Henry Delamotte: Illustrations of Roman mosaics assisted by Talbotype copying and reduction (1850) |
| 73 | England: Stonehenge |
| 74 | Major-General Sir Henry James R.E., F.R.S.: Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland (1867) |
| Egypt - Archaeological sites |
| 75 | Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza |
| 76 | Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids |
| 77 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt |
| 78 | Egypt: The Sphinx |
| 79 | Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara) |
| 80 | Egypt: Colossi of Memnon |
| 81 | Egypt: Dendara |
| 82 | Egypt: Edfou (Edfu) |
| 83 | Egypt: Karnak |
| 84 | Egypt: Kom Ombo |
| 85 | Egypt: Luxor |
| 86 | Egypt: Philae |
| 87 | Egypt: Thebes |
| 88 | Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III) |
| 89 | Egypt: Valley of the Kings |
| 90 | Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia |
| 91 | William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) |
| 92 | H. Béchard: The Pyramids |
| 93 | The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) |
| 94 | Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) |
| 95 | Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) |
| 96 | Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912) |
| Egypt - Archaeological finds |
| 97 | Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti |
| 98 | Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle |
| Egypt - Use of magnesium light |
| 99 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Use of magnesium light at the Great Pyramid (1865) |
| 100 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Photography, Magnesium, and the Pyramid (1865) |
| 101 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: As soon as it was discovered that photography was possible by magnesium... (1865) |
| Israel and Palestine / The Holy Land |
| 102 | George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) |
| 103 | Auguste Salzmann: Jerusalem |
| 104 | Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem |
| 105 | Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai |
| 106 | American Palestine Exploration Society |
| 107 | Palestine Exploration Fund |
| Archaeological excavations |
| 108 | Archaeological excavations in progress |
| Epigraphy |
| 109 | Epigraphy - Squeezes of inscriptions |
| Archaeological finds and museum displays |
| 110 | Introduction to archaeological finds |
| 111 | Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq |
| 112 | Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari |
| 113 | Roger Fenton: The British Museum |
| 114 | Stephen Thompson: British Museum |
| 115 | Giorgio Sommer: The ash-covered remains from Pompeii |
| 116 | John Edward Lee: Roman Imperial Photographs being a selection of forty enlarged Photographs of Roman Coins (1874) |
| 117 | Underwood & Underwood: Classical and Renaissance sculptures |
| 118 | Paris-Stereo: Vues d'Italie (1920) |
| Conclusions |
| 119 | Conclusions on archaeology |
