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A Brief Account of the Researches and Discoveries in Upper Egypt, Made Under the Direction of Henry Salt; To Which Is Added a Detailed Catalogue of

A Brief Account of the Researches and Discoveries in Upper Egypt, Made Under the Direction of Henry Salt; To Which Is Added a Detailed Catalogue of

D'Athanasi, Giovanni

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ISBN10: 115064527X
ISBN13: 9781150645273
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1836 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. INTRODUCTION. Three Collections of Egyptian Antiquities were formed by the late Mr. Salt, daring his residence, as Consul General, in Egypt. On his arrival in that country in the year 1816, he found that Monsieur Drouetti, formerly the French Consul, was in Upper Egypt, busily employed in buying up every thing that might add to the Collection of Antiquities which he had been several years in forming, with the view of disposing of them to the French Government. At this period, few Egyptian relics, and, comparatively speaking, no collection, had been brought to this country. Mr. Salt, therefore, endeavoured to persuade Monsieur Drovetti to offer his collection to the Trustees of the British Museum. In the meantime, however, Mr. Salt's natural taste for antiquarian research; combined with the ambition that this, his own country, should equally with France, or any other foreign country, possess the means of throwing some light upon the character and history of the ancient Egyptians, induced him to enter that field which, though exceeding far in interest all others of remote antiquarian research, has proved fatal to several of those persons who were the most enterprising and zealous in the cause they had espoused. The removal, in the year 1816, from Thebes to Alexandria, of the colossal head of the younger Memnon, was Mr. Salt's first great undertaking, in which he was joined by that eminent traveller Mr. Burckhardt. To the kindness and liberality of Mr. Salt is this country indebted for the knowledge of Belzoni; for at this period Belzoni, a man of great mechanical ingenuity, had failed in an undertaking of watering, by an hydraulic machine, the gardens of the Seraglio of Mahommed Ali: this placed Belzoni in much distress, but Messrs. Salt and Burckha...

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