The Empress Eugénie in the desert. The arrival in Thebes.

Engraving published in Le Monde illustré.
The Empress Eugénie made a journey into Upper Egypt
between the 25^th October and the 12^th
November 1869 shortly before presiding at the
inauguration ceremony for the Suez Canal.
The main ports of call on this journey up the Nile
were Minieh, Keneh, the Daekel oasis,
Edfu, Aswan and on the return Esneh, Luxor, Karnak,
Thebes, Memphis, Saqqarah and Gizeh.