The Great Belzoni: Archaeologist ExtraordinaryWalker, 1961 - 344 páginas |
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... stone causeway from the ancient quay . The villagers surrounded the temple while the visitors were inside and demanded money in threatening tones . But Giovanni refused to be intimidated and stalked majestically through the crowd ...
... stone causeway from the ancient quay . The villagers surrounded the temple while the visitors were inside and demanded money in threatening tones . But Giovanni refused to be intimidated and stalked majestically through the crowd ...
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... stone coffins was granite , breccia or basalt , though limestone and quartzite were also found . They were massive , heavy and dull . This was a light , translucent shell , delicate and fragile , yet royal in all its propor- tions . The ...
... stone coffins was granite , breccia or basalt , though limestone and quartzite were also found . They were massive , heavy and dull . This was a light , translucent shell , delicate and fragile , yet royal in all its propor- tions . The ...
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... stone , no less than six feet long and four wide , fell from the top , while the man was digging under it ; but fortunately it rested on two other stones , one on each side of him , higher than himself , as he was sitting at his work ...
... stone , no less than six feet long and four wide , fell from the top , while the man was digging under it ; but fortunately it rested on two other stones , one on each side of him , higher than himself , as he was sitting at his work ...
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The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure Stanley Mayes Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
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Ababda Abu Simbel Agha Alexandria Amenhetep ancient antiquities Arabs arrived Aswan Bankes Bartholomew Fair Battista Belzoni Beechey Berenice boat British Museum Burckhardt Cailliaud Cairo Cataract chamber collection colossal consul Dawud desert Dibdin Drovetti Egyptian Egyptology England English entrance European exhibition feet figures Finati French Gallery gave granite Greek Hamilton head Henry Salt hieroglyphics hundred James Curtin John journey Karnak Kashif king later letter London Lord Luxor Mamluk Memnon months Muhammad Muhammad Ali mummies Narrative night Nile Nubia Oasis obelisk Padua Paris Pasha passage Pharaoh Philae piastres Qurna Ramses Ramses II Richards royal ruins Sadler's Salt's sand Sarah sarcophagus says Giovanni Second Pyramid seemed Sekhmet Seti Shaikh showed statues stone temple theatre Thebes Thothmes thought thousand pounds told tomb travellers Trustees Upper Egypt Valley visited wall William William John Bankes wrote Yanni Young Memnon