Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, under the order of Frederick V of Denmark, first published the book in 1755.

[citation needed] Mark Tuscher from Nuremberg made the drawings into copperplates for the publication.

A very often-used extract from this book is Norden's drawing of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

Although Richard Pococke in the same year visited and later published a stylish rendering (in A Description of the East and Some other Countries, 1743), he drew the Sphinx with the nose still on.

This drawing is often used to disprove the story that Napoleon I of France destroyed the nose of the Sphinx.