A Carpet Seller, Cairo - 575 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle three The Red Room traditionally served

The Red Room traditionally served as a parlor

a captivating testament to the age of exploration and the relentless human pursuit of knowledge

Each gracious lady is determined to take the blue ribbon

and someone wrote something down

and the tree of knowledge

A Carpet Seller, Cairo - 575 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle three The Red Room traditionally servedIn 1798, a French army led by General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt and occupied the country until 1801. This created a European presence in Egypt and attracted Western travelers, fascinated with the Orient, including present day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa. Many of them captured their impressions in paint or print. Travel was made more accessible by steamships and trains, so paintings focused on cities such as Constantinople,