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Discusses the history of archaeology in Egypt, including the early exploration, the copyists, collectors, and translators, as well as the work of individuals such as Napoleon, John Ledyard, Jean Francois Champollion, Mohammed Ali, Giovanni Belzoni, George Gliddon, Ismail (and the Suez Canal), Auguste Mariette, Alexander H. Rhind, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Edwin Smith, Sir Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer), Gaston Maspero, Amelia B. Edwards, Sir Flinders Petrie,...

At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence and no old enemies...

"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 some of its largest and still awe-inspiring treasures. Today, however, the...