Editor’s Note: These photographs may look old-fashioned now, but when we first started posting photos most images were scanned in from film negatives, which have a very different color gamut than digital, and the resolution on the internet was very poor. Images needed to be only a few kilobytes so that you could download them with a phone modem; now they are hundreds of times bigger. Learn more about our original film photographs. Fortunately, I found the original images for this pictorial. I hope you enjoy this trip back in time.
Update: We recently found our higher-res version on our backup. These images are about as good as they get for that time period.
By Seth Tator
An African adventure captured on film.





One Comment
Great photo novella of Egypt. I am especially drawn to the photo of Egyptian women waterbearers. So stark and far from my water experiences. It was shot in a nice brownish light or perhaps with film that produces those tones. Perfect for Egypt. It reminded me of some old Erroll Flynn movie. Nice work. ~ MD