The Geographical Society building contains a library (mostly with works in French), a
cartographic (map making) collection, along with a series of relief maps of Egypt. There is also
an ethnographic museum (anthropological study of the origins and characteristics of racial and
cultural groups) with a collection of common, everyday artifacts of 19th century Egypt.
Founded by Ismail, the Society at first acted as a staging point for European explorers who
came to search for the sources of the Nile. Later, the Society financed a number of
geographers of Egypt.
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