Belzoni : the giant archaeologists love to hate /

Belzoni : the giant archaeologists love to hate /

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Main Author: Noėl Hume, Ivor (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778-1823. > Travel > Egypt.
Belzoni, > Mrs. > (Sarah), > 1783-1870. > Travel > Egypt.
Archaeologists > Italy > Biography.
Archaeologists > Egypt > Biography.
Egyptologists > Biography.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt > Description and travel.

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Call Number: DT76.9 .B4 N64 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Sampson and Sarah
  • Mohammed's man in Malta
  • Enter the consul-general
  • Moving Memnon
  • The devil made them do it
  • Staff problems at Abu Simbel
  • A present from Philae
  • Messing with mummies
  • Return to Abu Simbel
  • The great discovery
  • Enduring achievements
  • Confrontation in the consulate
  • Over the mountains and through the passes
  • Philae and the grand engagement
  • Bingham Richards and the "Christie-sort of list"
  • Hard times
  • Saving Sarah
  • Significant others
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary.