Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate
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Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate

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The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1824) was all of these before going on to become one of the most controversial figures in the history of Egyptian archaeology. A man of exceptional size with an ego of comparable proportions, he procured for the British Museum...more
Hardcover, 301 pages
Published November 7th 2011 by University of Virginia Press
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Diane
Dec 24, 2012 Diane rated it 4 of 5 stars
this popped up on a year-end best reads list. it's pretty good. interesting if you like archaeology at all.
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A great take on a biography of the giant Belzoni.
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