Name: Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)
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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

564

Format

Paperback

Weight

2.05

ISBN

1108016758

ISBN13

9781108016759

Edition No.

Synopsis "Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology) "

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.

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