European exploration and travel writings of ancient Egypt commenced from the 13th century onward, with only occasional detours into a more scientific approach, notably by Claude Sicard, Benoît de Maillet, Frederic Louis Norden and Richard Pococke.

The first party to publish ( 1744 ) an account of their visit was that of Dr. Richard Pococke, Mr. William Windham and other racists, such as the Englishmen who visited the Mer de Glace in 1741.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

In a pamphlet of " Remarks " ( 1742 ), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections ( 1744 – 1745 ) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton ( who had been his friend ), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other of his critics.

These include those of George Sandys, André Thévet, Athanasius Kircher, Balthasar de Monconys, Jean de Thévenot, John Greaves, Johann Michael Vansleb, Benoît de Maillet, Cornelis de Bruijn, Paul Lucas, Richard Pococke, Frederic Louis Norden and others.

Richard Pococke, who visited in 1727, writes that it is " famous for some pleasant gardens of lemon and orange trees ; and here the Turks have a mosque, to which they pay great veneration, having, as they say, a great sheik buried there, whom they call Sede Ishab, who, according to tradition ( as a very learned Jew assured me ) is Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses.

* Pococke, Richard ( 1811 ): A Description of the East and Some other Countries, p. 458

Harbison also produces some evidence pointing to a later date and a different use: a letter by one Richard Pococke who visited the " oratory " in 1758, two years after it was " discovered " by Charles Smith: " Near this building they show a grave with a head at the cross of it and call it the tomb of the Giant ; the tradition is that Griffith More was buried there, & as they call'd a chapel, so probably it was built by him or his family at their burial place.

According to Richard Pococke, this was done to " hinder the Jews from going into it ".

In 1752 Richard Pococke observed a wake in County Down: " I saw a number of women in an adjacent cabin, and my curiosity led me to go in, it was a wake over the body of an old man, who was stretched on the floor and covered with a sheet.

Richard Pococke, who visited Tiberias in 1727, witnessed the building of a fort to the north of the city, and the strengthening of the old walls, and attributed it to a disagreement with the pasha ( ruler ) of Damascus.

Although Richard Pococke in the same year visits and later publishes a stylish rendering ( in A Description of the East and Some other Countries, 1743 ), he draws it with the nose still on.

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* Letters from Abroad: The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke and Jeremiah Milles.

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