Egypt, circa 1857, by Francis Frith

Called Pharaoh’s Bed by locals, Trajan’s Kiosk (after the Roman Emporer Trajan who built it around 100 A.D.), served as the main entrance to the Temple built upon the Nile island of Philae. Flooded by the construction of the Aswan Dam during the early to mid 1900s, the entire Temple complex (including Trajan’s Kiosk) was moved to another Nile island in the 1970s. This image, by the English photographer Francis Frith (who made his reputation taking photographs in Egypt) is a view of the Pharaoh’s Bed before it was relocated.