Tag: Africa

Frédéric Cailliaud’s travel accounts and drawings were pivotal contributions to the development of Egyptology in the 19th century. Cailliaud, born in 1787, became a prominent French naturalist, mineralogist, and conchologist. From 1815 to 1827, he travelled extensively throughout Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia, collecting minerals and making observations. He rediscovered the ancient emerald mines of Mount Zubarah and long…