Egypt
- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - Tomb Of Seti I (kv17): The Crypt's Side Chamber
Heritage Key With photographs, slideshow, site plan and video. In 2008, an archaeological team found that the Tomb of Seti I (KV17) was in fact larger than originally thought. Where the original discoverer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni had found the tomb...
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- Travellers In Egypt Website - New Articles
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include: Thebes - its temples and great ruins http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/thebes_its_temp.htmlIppolito...
- Valley Of The Kings
John Romer Henry Holt and Company New York 1981 ISBN: 0-8050-0993-0 'The first half of the 19th century was the heroic age of Egyptology, when a year more or less meant whole new worlds of knowledge and discovery for the scholars in Egypt...
Egypt
Belzoni's Account of The Tomb of Seti I
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/05/the_tomb_of_set.html
The Travellers in Egypt website has another great crop of articles. This one is an extract from Belzoni's Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, 1820.
The Travellers in Egypt website has another great crop of articles. This one is an extract from Belzoni's Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, 1820.
It begins: "On the 16th October (1817) I recommence my excavations in the valley of Beban el Malook, and pointed out the fortunate spot, which has paid me for all the trouble I took in my researches. I may call this a fortunate day, one of the best perhaps of my life; I do not mean to say, that fortune has made me rich, for I do not consider all rich men fortunate; but she has given me that satisfaction, that extreme pleasure, which wealth cannot purchase; the pleasure of discovering what has been long sought in vain, and of presenting the world with a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity, which can be recorded as superior to any other in point of grandeur, style, and preservation, appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it; and what I found in it will show its great superiority to all others. Not fifteen yards from the last tomb I described, I caused the earth to be opened at the foot of a steep hill, and under a torrent, which, when it rains, pours a great quantity of water over the very spot I have caused to be dug. No one could imagine, that the ancient Egyptians would make the entrance into such an immense and superb excavation just under a torrent of water; but I had strong reasons to suppose, that there was a tomb in that place, from indications I had observed in my pursuit."
And it gets better and better. Well worth a read!
- Feature: Sandro Vannini's Photography - Tomb Of Seti I (kv17): The Crypt's Side Chamber
Heritage Key With photographs, slideshow, site plan and video. In 2008, an archaeological team found that the Tomb of Seti I (KV17) was in fact larger than originally thought. Where the original discoverer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni had found the tomb...
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- Travellers In Egypt Website - New Articles
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include: Thebes - its temples and great ruins http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/thebes_its_temp.htmlIppolito...
- Valley Of The Kings
John Romer Henry Holt and Company New York 1981 ISBN: 0-8050-0993-0 'The first half of the 19th century was the heroic age of Egyptology, when a year more or less meant whole new worlds of knowledge and discovery for the scholars in Egypt...