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Travels in Egypt and Nubia / Giovanni Battista Belzoni.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT60 .B45 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823.
- Series:
- Great adventures
- Standardized Title:
- Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823--Diaries.
- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823.
- Egyptologists--Diaries.
- Egyptologists.
- Egypt--Description and travel.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Nubia--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vercelli : White Star, 2007.
- Summary:
- In this diary, engineer and explorer of Egyptian antiquities Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), recounts a life story as entertaining as the best fiction. Beginning with his childhood in Padua where he was one of 13 children, moving on to his early adulthood in England where he was a member of a circus troupe, and, finally, his later years spent searching for antiquities in Egypt in an era when the desert sands concealed boundless treasures, Belzoni's diary chronicles an extraordinary life. His discoveries, including the temple at Abu Simbel, the pyramid of Khafre, and the tomb of Seti I, made a fundamental contribution to our knowledge of ancient Egypt, yet Belzoni has remained obscure-until now. His journal gives readers fresh insight into an exciting time in the history of archaeology and into the career of one of the pioneers of Egyptology, later praised by Howard Carter as "one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of Archaeology."
- Notes:
- "Excerpts from Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavation[s], in Egypt and Nubia, and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon, John Murray, 1820"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788854402133
- OCLC:
- 85692230
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