Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and of Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon

By:

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology

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The Italian adventurer Giovanni Belzoni (1778–1823) is one of the most colourful and notorious figures in Egyptology. After the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, European interest in the country, and especially in its antiquities, led to a demand for artifacts, the larger the better. Belzoni happened to be pursuing his two careers, as circus strong-man and hydraulic engineer, in Egypt in 1815, when he was asked to organise the transport of a 7-ton statue of Ramesses II from Thebes to the British Museum. After the success of this enterprise, he turned his attention to the discovery of other antiquities, though using destructive techniques which were deplored by serious contemporary scholars. His narrative of his adventures was enormously popular at the time, and remains readable and entertaining today. This reissue omits the plates from the original edition, which are too large to be reproduced satisfactorily in this format.

Release date NZ

July 22nd, 2010

Author

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

2 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps

Pages

564

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology

Dimensions

170x244x29

ISBN-13

9781108016759

Product ID

6873552

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