Hermann Burchardt- first photos of Siwa available to my knowledge

May 26, 2020Sergio Volpi1 min readTravellers & explorers

The photos, realized in the spring of 1893 in the first trip of Hermann Burchardt, come directly from the archive of the "Ethnologisches Museum -Berlin" except for some that come from the publication of Stefano Struffolino "Hermann Burchardt at Siwa: unpublished pictures" who found them in the same archives.

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Hermann Burchardt- first photos of Siwa available to my knowledge

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