The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient TreasureBloomsbury USA, 2003 M09 26 - 360 páginas This is the extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni - engineer, barber, monk, actor and circus strongman (where he later earned his title, The Great Belzoni) - who became one of the giants of 19th-century Egyptian archaeology. Sometimes maligned as a tomb robber, Giovanni Battista Belzoni is perhaps the most important and yet least remembered explorer and archaeologist of the 19th and 20th centuries. Giovanni Belzoni was the first person to penetrate the heart of the second pyramid at Giza and the first European to visit the oasis of Siwah and discover the ruined city of Berenice on the Red Sea. In 1823, at the age of 45, Belzoni died of fever trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu. |
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... Bankes through Palestine and Syria and only left his service in June 1816 , when Bankes went to Cyprus . Back in Cairo once more , with strong recommendations from Bankes and Burckhardt , Finati was marked down by Salt for future ...
... Bankes through Palestine and Syria and only left his service in June 1816 , when Bankes went to Cyprus . Back in Cairo once more , with strong recommendations from Bankes and Burckhardt , Finati was marked down by Salt for future ...
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... Bankes made a careful and complete transcript.5 Bankes had more enlightened views than many of his contemporaries about the despoiling of ancient monuments , especially when they were entire or nearly so and could be preserved . He ...
... Bankes made a careful and complete transcript.5 Bankes had more enlightened views than many of his contemporaries about the despoiling of ancient monuments , especially when they were entire or nearly so and could be preserved . He ...
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... Bankes , the father of William John , laid before them a letter that his son had re- ceived from Salt , dated 6 January . This said that the whole of his collection had now arrived in England and he hoped the Museum would decide on its ...
... Bankes , the father of William John , laid before them a letter that his son had re- ceived from Salt , dated 6 January . This said that the whole of his collection had now arrived in England and he hoped the Museum would decide on its ...
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Ababda Abu Simbel Agha Alexandria Amenhetep ancient antiquities Arabs arrived Aswan Bankes Bartholomew Fair Battista Belzoni Beechey Berenice Bernardino Drovetti boat British Museum Burckhardt Cailliaud Cairo Cataract chamber collection colossal consul Dawud Dibdin Drovetti Egyptian 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