Paintings of Egyptian ruins from the 19th century

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David Roberts was a 19th century Scottish painter. After a successful career in the theater as a set painter he travelled considerably, painting landscapes of where he went. He's most well known as an Orientalist because of his paintings from his travels to Egypt.  I  featured one of his works in my post The immensity of time. He painted a variety of scenes, but I've chosen to show his paintings of Egyptian ruins.  

Most of these pictures are from Art Print's post: David Roberts. There are many more examples of his work at that link. They include more scenes of Egyptian ruins as well as scenes of life and architecture throughout the Middle East and Europe.

David Roberts

Angkor Wat

This is a curious little video by somebody with the slightly spammy screen name paidworldtraveler. They've taken some 16mm footage of somebody's trip to Angkor Wat, edited it heavily and added a soundtrack. The result is rather dreamy and you get a good feel for the scale and condition of the ruins.