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A strongman in Egypt. (Late, great geographers).(Giovanni Battista Belzoni )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) An Italian...In the early 1820s Giovanni Belzoni was talked of...was his background? Belzoni was a big man from a...13 siblings). Born Giovanni Battista Bolzon in Padua on 5...
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Belzoni's lure: this Delta town reels-in good times, good food, and wonderful small-town life.(mississippi matters: small-town spotlight)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine
; ...like Jackson, Hayden, and Magnolia streets. Belzoni is the seat of Humphreys County. The town...noted Italian explorer and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Belzoni. To clarify, Giovanni didn't discover Belzoni in-between digs...
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The heart of the Delta. (Looking Back).(Mississippi history)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine
; ...life when he renamed the town for a famous person, Giovanni Battista Belzoni. The story goes that Belzoni was actually an acquaintance...destruction by fire to the sparsely populated Delta. Giovanni Battista Beizoni was born in Italy on November 15, 1778...
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Mummy, mummy, look what I found!
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...it does discoveries, including such swashbuckling early characters as "the great Belzoni," the former circus strongman and engineer Giovanni Battista Belzoni who in the first decades of the 19th century made such landmark finds as the tomb...
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Heirs to ancient air: scientists hope to study the delicate contents of a 4,600-year-old chamber without ever disturbing what rests inside. (Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Heirs to Ancient Air Giovanni Battista Belzoni was not known for his light touch. He etched a space for himself in the annals of archaeology by being one of the first Westerners...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...commander, 1592; Jacques Sarrazin, painter and sculptor, 1660; Claude Joseph Vernet, painter, 1789; Giovanni Battista Belzoni, explorer and Egyptologist, 1823; Frederick VI, King of Denmark, 1839; Robert Montgomery, poet, 1855...
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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism
; ...traveler and for his heroic account of his search for the source of the Nile (1820). The former stage performer Giovanni Battista Belzoni proudly described his role in expropriating antique objects and papyri back to England for eventual display...
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Pharaoh Seti I's tomb in Egypt bigger than believed
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...Seti I, which is the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is bigger than originally believed. Giovanni Battista Belzoni, who discovered the tomb in 1817, had noted the tomb at 328 feet (100 meters). But, according to a report...
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Patavina Orientalia Selecta. (Brief Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...1985, although the town itself can boast of a native son prominent among early Orientalists, the adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni. The present volume has been published in celebration of the first fifteen years of the Lehrstuhl, and includes...
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Egypt to identify mummy believed to belong to Thutmose I
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; ...The remains of two other mummies, which belonged to two women and had been discovered by Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni in 1817, will also arrive at the museum on Friday, Hawwas added.
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