Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Publisher: Harmakis
ISBN: 883142727X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the tomb in 1817, and he im-mediately realized its importance, describing it as “the principal, the most perfect and splendid monument in that country”(Belzoni 1820). In this book Belzoni describes the excavations, the difficulties encountered during this extraordinary discovery and the amazement of being faced with this magnificent work.

Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191640980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured the British imagination across the centuries, and how it has impacted on popular culture. Tutankhamen was not the first curse story to emerge in British popular culture. This book uncovers the 'true' stories of two extraordinary Victorian gentlemen widely believed at the time to have been cursed by the artefacts they brought home from Egypt in the nineteenth century. These are weird and wonderful stories that weave together a cast of famous writers, painters, feted soldiers, lowly smugglers, respected men of science, disreputable society dames, and spooky spiritualists. Focusing on tales of the curse myth, Roger Luckhurst leads us through Victorian museums, international exhibitions, private collections, the battlefields of Egypt and Sudan, and the writings of figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood. Written in an open and accessible style, this volume is the product of over ten years research in London's most curious archives. It explores how we became fascinated with Egypt and how this fascination was fuelled by myth, mystery, and rumour. Moreover, it provides a new and startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.

Author: C.N. Reeves
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136152903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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First published in 1992. This book includes research and excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes presented a meeting to mark seventy fifth anniversary of 1915 when the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter had embarked upon their search for Tut'ankhamiin, a search destined to be crowned with such stunning success eight years later. What has happened in the Valley of the Kings since that discovery was the theme of our meeting, a theme addressed over the following two days by an international panel of leading Egyptologists.