TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive

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TIMEA provides online access to texts, maps, and images documenting travel to the Middle East (primarily Egypt) between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These materials range from travel guides, travel narratives, and museum catalogs to stereocards, advertisements and postcards. To facilitate access and analysis, the texts are fully searchable, and the images are richly described. TIMEA also makes available interactive, dynamic GIS (Geographical Information Systems) maps that reveal the relationships between geographical features such as elevation and water and cultural phenomena such as settlement patterns. Finally, TIMEA provides teaching and research guides that explore the process of conducting research and set the materials in context.

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TIMEA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Rice's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI).

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  • About TIMEA  10
    Project Documentation
  • TIMEA Historical Maps and Plans  151
    The TIMEA map collection contains 150 historical maps and plans, primarily of Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • TIMEA Research  8
    The TIMEA research collection provides papers, presentations and tools related to the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA).
  • TIMEA Research and teaching guides  9
    Research and teaching guides that explore the research process and set materials in context.
  • TIMEA Texts  81
    TIMEA provides access to travel narratives, travel guides, museum catalogs, and other texts related to travel to the Middle East.
  • TIMEA Visual Materials  1772
    This collection contains book illustrations, postcards, stereocards, photographs, and ephemera related to travel in the Middle East, primarily Egypt.