DescriptionEgyptFrontispiece.jpg	English: Frontispiece to The Description of Egypt, a book in the public domain for some time and published by the French government from 1809-1823.
Date	13 November 2006 (original upload date)
Source	http://www.daheshmuseum.org/collection/gr/egyptFrontispiece_a.jpg
Author	The original uploader was SnowFire at English Wikipedia.
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• 2006-11-13 00:07 SnowFire 207×300× (23711 bytes) Frontispiece to The Description of Egypt, a book in the public domain for some time and published by a now-defunct French government anyway. Taken from http://www.daheshmuseum.org/collection/gr/egyptFrontispiece_a.jpg