This is a nice public domain image of Egyptian ruins. The site is sometimes spelled Medinet Habu. On the large version (just click on the image above to see the full sized version) you can see the shadowed wall is covered in hieroglyphs. This is part of one of the courtyards in the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III. Modern photos show the cracks have been filled-in and the rubble removed. There are six of of these images of Ramesses III along one wall of the courtyard, with a hallway running along behind them. Two of the statues are nearly gone, like the right one here, and two more have the upper half missing.

This photograph was taken by the famed English photographer, Francis Frith (1822-1898), in the late 1850s. Frith, a founding member of the Liverpool Photographic Society, married Mary Ann Rosling (sister of Alfred Rosling, the first treasurer of the Photographic Society). While his mid-Eastern views are well known and highly appreciated, it is the local U.K. photographs he took that brought him to fame. He set out to photograph every village and town in Britain, paying particular attention to notable or historic features. He started a company, ‘F. Frith & Co.’ in the 1860s that lasted over 100 years. They published most of his images as postcards, which helped to make those images, and Frith, widely known.